There is long history of studies documenting that some neurons respond to images of objects, faces, and scenes in a highly selective manner. This includes neurons in the human hippocampus (e.g., the famous example of a neuron responding to images of the actress Jennifer Aniston) and neurons in high-level visual cortex in monkey (for reviews see Bowers, 2009; Ison, Quian Quiroga, & Fried, 2015). These findings have led to a growing interest in the claim that some neurons code for information in a localist (‘grandmother cell’) manner, as reflected in the many contributions to a recent special issue on this topic in the journal Language, Cognition, & Neuroscience (Bowers, 2017).