"The giant cells" were cortical pyramidal cells of unusual size.
An emergent model of orientation selectivity in cat visual cortical simple cells.
A cortical cell is not sufficiently precise or finely tuned enough for specific objects, and to some degree most cells respond to any complex stimulus.
The reasonable alternative to feature detectors would be that cortical cells work as a network.
These dead cortical cells form what the authors call 'burned-out plaques' made of the neurotransmitter's degradation products.
In this association, the fungal hyphae grow around the root of the plant and between its cortical cells, but do not actually penetrate them.
After establishing its haustoria for nutrients, more oospores will begin to form in the cortical cells of the root.
Some of the outer cortical cells may contain chloroplasts.
He also theorized that ideas and memories are to be envisioned as being attached to specific cortical cells.
The visiting soul must use every available cortical cell to maintain bare reason.