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by aw3c2 4282 days ago
Citations please.
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I am not sure why the link was down voted. But here is the excerpt from the wiki page:

In 2005, a UCLA and Caltech study found evidence of different cells that fire in response to particular people, such as Bill Clinton or Jennifer Aniston. A neuron for Halle Berry, for example, might respond "to the concept, the abstract entity, of Halle Berry", and would fire not only for images of Halle Berry, but also to the actual name "Halle Berry".

EDIT: Here is another link:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7567-why-your-brain-ha...

And here is the next sentence:

> However, there is no suggestion in that study that only the cell being monitored responded to that concept, nor was it suggested that no other actress would cause that cell to respond (although several other presented images of actresses did not cause it to respond). The researchers believe that they have found evidence for sparseness, rather than for grandmother cells.