From owner-cse575-fa08-list@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU Tue Oct 21 13:49:54 2008 Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2008 13:49:46 -0400 From: "William J. Rapaport" Subject: 575: "Grandmother" cells To: CSE575-FA08-LIST@LISTSERV.BUFFALO.EDU ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: "Grandmother" cells ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Here's a citation to the paper on "grandmother" (or "Jennifer Aniston") cells: Quiroga, R. Quian; Reddy, L.; Kreiman, G.; Koch, C.; & Fried, I. (2005), "Invariant Visual Representation by Single Neurons in the Human Brain", Nature 435 (23 June): 1102-1107 http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/Papers.by.Others/quiroga-etal05-singleNeurons.pdf Supplementary material: http://www.cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/Papers/Papers.by.Others/quiroga-etal05-suppmat.pdf For more on the history of the idea, see: Gross, Charles G. (2002), "Genealogy of the 'Grandmother Cell'", Neuroscientist 8(5): 512-518 http://www.as.wvu.edu/daly/439/readings/Gross%202002%20Grandmother%20Cell.pdf