Catchword: grandmother cell

Filed under: English, Biology, Body, Science

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: The Grandmother cell.…Should one suppose that the cellular abstraction process goes so far that there exists for every meaningful structure of whose specific recognition a person is capable (for example, “my grandmother”) at least one particular nerve cell in the brain that responds if and only if the light and dark pattern from which that structure is abstracted appears in its visual space…?

Article or Document Title:
“Limits to the Scientific Understanding of Man”

Author:
Gunther S. Stent

Article, document, publication, web site:
Science

Date of publication:
Mar. 21, 1975

Page number:
1056

Volume: 187

Number or issue: 4181

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