Wednesday, June 22, 2005

One Brain Cell for Jennifer Aniston, one brain cell only.

This is a pretty strange study. It says that only one brain cell reacts when people see a picture of a celebrity on a laptop computer. That same cell will react also when the person see's pcitures of Aniston and Lisa Kudrow together. I guess that would be the "Friends" nueron. This part was weird though:

Oddly, when that participant was shown photos of Aniston paired with actor
Brad Pitt, from whom Aniston later separated, the brain cell didn't respond.

I wonder if the Brad Pitt nueron fired first when the picture of the couple was shown? Or the two of them together fired a totally different neuron that wasn't recorded in the study?

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