Cells 'Recognize' Famous People Brain Cells 'Recognize' Halle
Berry, Other Celebrities, By MALCOLM RITTER June 23, 2005 NEW
YORK Jun 23, 2005 — Halle Berry? Jennifer Aniston? Everybody
knows them. And now a surprising study finds that even
individual cells in your brain act as if they The work could
help shed light on how the brain stores information, an expert
said. When scientists sampled brain cell activity in people who
were scrutinizing dozens of pictures, they found some individual
cells that reacted to a particular celebrity, landmark, animal
or object. In one case, a single cell was activated by different
photos of Berry, including some in her "Catwoman" costume, a
drawing of her and even the words, "Halle The findings appear in
a part of the brain that transforms what people perceive into
what they'll eventually remember, said Dr. Itzhak Fried of the
University of California, Los Angeles, a senior investigator on
the The findings do not mean that a particular person or object
is recognized and rememb