The Homer Neuron
Oct. 9th, 2009 04:05 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
drscottThe WSJ reports some neural research finding that there are neurons specifically tuned to fire on concept recognition -- for example, one subject had a neuron that only fired when the concept of Jennifer Aniston was evoked by sensory input (and it wouldn't fire if she was paired with someone else in a photo.)
The story is illustrated by a cartoon of a Simpsonian yellow neuron and a frame of Homer being Homerian. They did find a subject who had a Homer neuron.
The story is illustrated by a cartoon of a Simpsonian yellow neuron and a frame of Homer being Homerian. They did find a subject who had a Homer neuron.
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Date: 2009-10-10 02:17 am (UTC)