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Neuroscientists Battle Furiously over Jennifer Aniston
When researchers showed subjects pictures of Jennifer Aniston, very specific neurons lit up. And these neurons weren't triggered by pictures of other people. This curious finding is one that brain scientists hope to solve by tracing the pathways in the human brain and creating a map called a connectome.
A few years ago, a UCLA neurosurgeon named Itzhak Fried, while operating on patients who suffer from debilitating epileptic seizures, discovered what he now calls the "Jennifer Aniston Neuron." When he showed these same patients pictures of Julia Roberts or random (not famous) people, or animals, or places, the neuron was quiet. On Monday, April 2, with Radiolab regular Carl Zimmer, I will be hosting a duel between MIT's Sebastian Seung and Anthony Movshan of New York University.
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