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The traditional answers (although assumptions would be a better word) to thisquestion get their inspiration from a conventional account of sensory perception. Accordingly, different early sensory cortices (largely in the back sections of thebrain) bring forward the components of perceptual information by brain pathways to so-called multimodal cortices (largely in the front sections), which integrate them. Perception would operate on the basis of a cascade of processors going in one direction. The cascade would extract, step by step, more and more refined signals, first in the sensory cortices of a single modality (e.g., visual) and later in multimodal cortices, those that receive signals from more than one modality (e.g., visual, auditory, and somatic). The cascade would follow, in general, a caudo-rostral direction (back to front) and would culminate in the anterior temporal and frontal cortices, where the most integrated representations of the ongoing multisensory apprehension of reality are presumed to occur. 这个问题的传统的答案（尽管假想会是一个更好的词）是从传统的感官当中得到灵感的。因此，不同的早期感觉皮层（主要在脑这一章节的后面，感知信息的组成部分是由大脑通路提出的，也就是所谓多式联运皮层通路（主要是在前面的章节）将他们组合在一起。知觉的正常发生依赖于同一方向传递信息的一系列处理器的正常工作。These assumptions are captured by the notion of a “grandmother cell.” A grandmother cell is a neuron somewhere near the top of the processing cascade (e.g., the anterior temporal lobe) whose activity would, in and of itself, comprehensively represent our grandmother when we perceive her. Such single cells (or small ensembles of cells) would hold an all-encompassing representation of objects and events during perception. Not only that, they would also hold a record of those perceived contents. The memory records would be where the grandmother cells are. Even more grandly, and in direct response to the question posed earlier, reactivated grandmother cells would allow the playback of those same perceived contents in their entirety, right there and then. In brief, activity in those neurons would account for the rec