Tuesday, October 27, 2009

The brain & celebrities

Got this off the News Of The Weird website:

The human brain's 100 billion neurons may have such specific functions that a few electrically charge only upon recognition of a single celebrity, such as Oprah Winfrey or Bill Clinton. UCLA researchers, studying the healthy cells of pre-op epilepsy patients, inadvertently discovered this unusual property, which apparently varies with individuals but remains internally consistent, whether the celebrity is represented by picture, name or sound. Patients were presented "hundreds of stimuli," one researcher told The Wall Street Journal in October, but "the neuron would respond to only one or two." For example, neurons were found that reacted only to Jennifer Aniston, only to "The Simpsons," only to Mother Teresa.
[Wall Street Journal, 10-9-09]

Interesting stuff there. In my case it's Megan Fox... or Bea Arthur.

2 comments:

  1. A Little something for you:
    http://www.esquire.com/the-side/video/megan-fox-video

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  2. That video squashed any chance of Mother Teresa stimulating any of my neurons... they are all now spoken for.

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