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... > material entity > biological material entity > anatomical entity > cell > neuron > concept cell

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concept cell  

Definition(s)

  • "neurons in the human MTL [medial temporal lobe] that respond to specific concepts, such as a familiar person." (Quian Quiroga, 2020, p. 995).

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  • grandmother cell
  • Jennifer Aniston neuron

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  • • Quiroga, R. Q. (2012). Concept cells : The building blocks of declarative memory functions. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 13(8), 587‑597. https://doi.org/10.1038/nrn3251

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Quiroga, R. Q. (2020). No pattern separation in the human hippocampus. Trends in Cognitive Sciences, 24(12), 994-1007. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tics.2020.09.012

    [Study type: literature review / Access: closed]
  • • Quiroga, R. Q., Reddy, L., Kreiman, G., Koch, C., & Fried, I. (2005). Invariant visual representation by single neurons in the human brain. Nature, 435(7045), 1102‑1107. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature03687

    [Study type: empirical study / Access: closed]

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  • Frank Arnould

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