Postscript: About Grandmother Cells and Jennifer Aniston Neurons

Autor/inn/en	Quian Quiroga, Rodrigo; Kreiman, Gabriel
Titel	Postscript: About Grandmother Cells and Jennifer Aniston Neurons
Quelle	In: Psychological Review, 117 (2010) 1, S.297-299 (3 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-295X
DOI	10.1037/0033-295X.117.1.297
Schlagwörter	Stellungnahme; Models; Brain; Psychological Studies; Cognitive Psychology; Visual Stimuli; Visual Discrimination; Cognitive Processes; Neurological Organization; Familiarity; Neuropsychology; Cytology + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Analogiemodell; Gehirn; Kognitive Psychologie; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Neuropsychologie; Zytologie
Abstract	The current authors reply to a response by Bowers on a comment by the current authors on the original article. A typical problem in any discussion about grandmother cells is that there is not a general consensus about what should be called as such. Here, we discuss possible interpretations in turn and contrast them with what we find in our own data (arguably the closest experimental evidence of grandmother cells so far). A first and naive interpretation of the term grandmother cell is that one and only one neuron encodes for one and only one concept (a face, an object, an animal, etc.). We agree with Bowers (2010) that this is a straw-man version of this idea--although some people still take this view when (incorrectly) arguing that if we would have grandmother cells then the concept of grandma would disappear if her dedicated cell dies--which clearly does not apply to our data. (As Provided).
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