The responses of individual neurons in the medial temporal lobes of epilepsy patients who were undergoing single-neuron recording as part of their treatment (Quiroga et al., 2005) support:
A) modular coding.
B) distributed coding.
C) the recognition by components model for object recognition.
D) the presence of a type of grandmother cell in the brain.

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The study by Quiroga et al. (2005) found that individual neurons in the medial temporal lobes of epilepsy patients responded specifically to concepts or persons, supporting the concept of a "grandmother cell," a neuron that responds to a very specific stimulus, such as the face of one's grandmother.

The Responses of Individual Neurons in the Medial Temporal Lobes