Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile Picasso at the Lapin Agile is a full-length play written by American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician Steve Martin in 1993. The play features the characters of Albert Einstein and Pablo Picasso, who meet at a bar called the Lapin Agile (French: "Nimble Rabbit") in Montmartre, Paris. It is set on October 8, 1904, and both men are on the verge of disclosing amazing ideas (Einstein will publish his special theory of relativity in 1905 and Picasso will paint "Les Demoiselles d'Avignon" in 1907). At the Lapin Agile, they have a lengthy debate about
Alternative explanations of the "grandmother" cell a study performed by Logothetis and Pauls, this is seen with the spiking of a single macaque monkey neuron when presented with a paper clip bent in a certain way at a variety of angles. At a specific angle, the neuron fires rapidly. At different angles or shapes, it does not. A grandmother cell, by contrast, would seem to fire at many different shapes and angles. And it is very difficult to imagine what kind of mechanism "will bind ... information from disparate sensory sources" in a cell, which makes a grandmother cell "a tremendous connectivity puzzle". In 2001, Kreiman