That wiki article looks dated. See these two, more recent abstracts: [1], [2].
Anyways, the point isn’t whether there are actual grandmother cells, or “merely” a very small number of cells serving the same purpose. It is that there are crucial brain functions with little to no redundancy.
That wiki article looks dated. See these two, more recent abstracts: [1], [2].
Anyways, the point isn’t whether there are actual grandmother cells, or “merely” a very small number of cells serving the same purpose. It is that there are crucial brain functions with little to no redundancy.