Paul May

Paul May, Special to the Daily Jeffersonian March 12, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET I grew up in rural Indiana. For my entire childhood, time didn’t change. We were a confusing little dot on the map for the rest of the country because we were Eastern Time zone for half the year and Central for the rest. But, from inside Indiana it was amazing. We never had to worry about if we spring forward or fall back, we just had to worry about Louisville’s TV stations. For half the year Jeopardy was an hour later.

We digitized eye and target position signals at 1 kHz and sampled unit activity at 50 kHz using Power1401 data acquisition/controller hardware (Cambridge Electronic Design). Data were saved to a hard drive for later analysis. A custom program running in Spike2 (Cambridge Electronic Design) controlled target movement and the monkey’s reward via the Power1401 hardware. Another custom program running in Spike2 analyzed the saved data.

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