SocialPipeline 04/07/2012 (a.m.)

• Light brings back bad memories | Science | guardian.co.uk

  tags: Neuron Memory

  • This led to the revival of the concept of the 'Grandmother cell,' a hypothetical neuron that encodes a complex, abstract concept, such as one's grandmother. Some researchers argue that each of these neurons encodes such a concept on its own. According to Fried, each cell is likely to be part of a sparsely distributed network of perhaps several million neurons. It is the network, and not individual neurons within it, that encodes a concept, or the memory of it. Individual cells are also likely to contribute to thousands or millions of other networks, too, each encoding a different concept or memory.

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