First Day…

I flew in Thursday night for the Friday auditory physiology satellite meeting organized by Xiaoqin Wang and Yale Cohen. It was an interesting meeting – in addition to posters and morning talks on new research findings, an afternoon session was focused exclusively on methods. A wide range of auditory neurophysiologists gave 10 minute slide presentations of training techniques and the details of their preps. It is widely acknowledged that training animals on auditory tasks tends to be harder than