Catchword: granny cell

Filed under: English, Biology, Body, Science

Part of speech: n.

Quotation: In vision, the search for a “granny cell”—a cell that fired only when you saw granny (or some other such complex object)—proved fruitless, so we are probably not going to detect a “Bach cell” or a “Stravinsky cell” in the auditory cortex.

Article or Document Title:
“Stripes of the auditory cortex register tones somewhat like keys on a piano Brain ‘hears’ stereo sound”

Author:
Robert Walgate, Wallace Immen

Article, document, publication, web site:
Globe and Mail

Publishing location:
Toronto, Can.

Date of publication:
Apr. 1, 1983

Page number:
E10

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