So, you could have good control over that. I did an auditory experiment for my thesis that was more complicated than that. It did get published in the Journal of Neurophysiology, but I can only remember one person referring to it. It had to do with the corpus callosum and the transfer of auditory information. Even though cats with this disparity information couldn’t use this information to do a task, i.e., like it’s time to do something. When I got to the University of Wisconsin, I worked with a person in Psychology briefly, because I couldn’t bear to give up auditory completely, and we did the same kind of lesions in cats, only the task was quite different. The task was – a click would come on the right or the left side, and you looked to see if the cat looked in that direction.  They were blind, but they would look in the direction of the sound. With auditory cortex gone, they could look in the correct direction. They missed the target by twenty degrees or so, but they could at least look in the correct direction. So you have some disparity between the information _____ the conclusions would come from the controlled experiment ---controlling intensity and ______ disparity to give information about where a sound __________ and creating the illusion of a sound somewhere - or using a real sound and asking for a reflexive movement. This has been replicated. So this is one of the differences that came with --- and then you would have to have some idea about how you would interpret that. Does the cat really hear a sound in some location or does he have a reflex pattern that allows him to use this information subcortically in some way to start a head movement in the right direction.

Bruce came to Vanderbilt because one of the clinical psychologists from Duke came before, Charles Spielberger, who recommended picking the star student coming out of the (Duke) lab and that turned out to be very good for Vanderbilt. Ultimately Bruce left for Florida State and Vanderbilt looked for his replacement, and they asked Diamond to recommend someone, and he recommended me – and that’s how I ended up here at Vanderbilt.                                   Next Page