Any time someone said the name "Jennifer Aniston," or when the patient looked at a picture of Jennifer Aniston or said the name "Jennifer Aniston," one neuron would fire and other neurons would not.

Excitatory neurons cause the next neurons to fire, passing a signal on, while inhibitory neurons reduce the likelihood that the next neuron will fire, slowing a signal down. "These results show us ...

In the extreme case, a very strong input will always make the postsynaptic neuron fire, whereas a very weak input will have no effect. The authors developed a compression algorithm that allowed ...