> However, in that year UCLA neurosurgeons Itzhak Fried, mentee Rodrigo Quian Quiroga and others published findings on what they would come to call the "Jennifer Aniston neuron".[5][6] After operating on patients who experience epileptic seizures, the researchers showed photos of celebrities like Jennifer Aniston. The patients, who were fully conscious, often had a particular neuron fire, suggesting that the brain has Aniston-specific neurons.[6][7]
This is fascinating. How many celebrity neurons does my brain contain? What is the limit? I used to read Perez Hilton, what happened to the neurons for C list celebrities I forgot? Were they repurposed or is a Hilary Duff neuron just waiting there all my life until needed?
Every so often I see an article or paper so far out of my field/familiarity that I'm not sure if I'm being pranked (i.e. The Retro Encabulator).
This would be one of those papers. They could tell me they discovered synchronized Cardinal Grammeters in neurons and I would have no idea if they were joking.
I thought this was a joke that was slipped in, but it turns out this is actually a real thing[0].
[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell