Neuroscientists Battle Furiously over Jennifer Aniston

I was hoping to read something about a discussion between neuroscientists. Instead I'm just reading one theory from one neuroscientist, without much arguments of proof that it's based on. Let alone any arguments from other scientists why he might be wrong.

Yep. Unfortunately, judging by the last paragraph, this is mostly an ad.

> 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. The two will duke it out on the campus of Columbia University. We're going to be streaming it on our Radiolab site.

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Of course, but in this particular case the article is very low on information.

*(2012)

and here is the Seung v Movshon debate that the article alluded to: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4KrhDZQ088

Seung is the same guy who wrote the famous 1999 Nature paper on non-negative matrix factorization (NMF). He once expressed his regret that his NMF paper became too famous to the point of eclipsing his main work (neuroscience). What a problem to have!

Being old enough to find out that the "Grandmother neuron" and "Jennifer Aniston" neuron are synonyms.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grandmother_cell