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Neuroscience

the hypothetical neuron that responds only to one specific complex object such as one's grandmother, used as the extreme case of localist coding.

In neuroscience, grandmother cell refers to the hypothetical neuron that responds only to one specific complex object such as one's grandmother, used as the extreme case of localist coding. This meaning comes from Gross (2002) in The Neuroscientist.[1]

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References

Gross, C. G. (2002). Genealogy of the “Grandmother Cell”. The Neuroscientist, 8(5), 512-518. https://doi.org/10.1177/107385802237175

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