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Show experimental animals on which terminal neurological studies were to-be performed. Or maybe Boaz had told her. "Sit down, Maia," Boaz may have said, a gruff edge concealed in his low voice. "I am going to t e l l you exactly what these experiments are about, so you won't have any questions and so you won't ever say I didn't t e l l you." She sat, crossing her thin legs, in the swivel chair, and smiled just slightly at him. "The man in Personnel said you were doing basic research in comparative conditioning. Using dogs. My job would be to take care of the dogs and run the conditioning experiments. That's all he said." "Let me explain," he begins, rather s t i f f l y . "There has been a lot of neurological research done on how the brain codes things. And there's been a lot of research on how animals react and learn in particular situations, but that kind of behavioral research says nothing about what happens in the brain. Not many attempts have been made to correlate a specific behavioral event with a neural event." "And that's what you're trying to do." "Yes," smiles Boaz. "It's worth doing." She tosses her head l i g h t l y . "Well, I'm glad of that," she says, a l i t t l e f l i p l y. He leans forward in the swivel chair. "You must understand that this research is significant," he warns, "and that i t ' s important that we do i t just this way." |