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A 'grandmother cell' is a brain cell that fires when it sees a very specific object. These neurons will only fire when their target object is displayed to the visual system. Also known as 'Jennifer Aniston Neurons' their discovered involved the finding of a cell that fired only when pictures of Jennifer Aniston were shown to the subject. Pictures of similar women failed to produce a response, and pictures of her with other actors failed to produce cell signaling.