May-Britt Moser

May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian neuroscientist who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering grid cells, neurons involved in spatial navigation.

Edvard Moser: A Norwegian neuroscientist who shared the 2014 Nobel Prize for discovering grid cells with May-Britt Moser and John O'Keefe. Her close scientific collaborator and fellow Nobel laureate, whose work helped establish the discovery.
Grid cell: A neuron that fires at multiple locations forming a roughly hexagonal lattice as an animal moves through an environment. Moser's work with Edvard Moser revealed these neurons and their spatial firing pattern.
Spatial navigation: The ability to determine and follow a route through physical space. Grid-cell research explains part of the neural machinery supporting navigation.
2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: The Nobel award shared by John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard Moser for discoveries of brain positioning systems. The prize recognized the discovery of grid cells and its connection to place-cell research.
John O'Keefe: A neuroscientist who discovered place cells and shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. His earlier discovery of place cells provided the framework for understanding grid cells.
Medial entorhinal cortex: A brain region that supplies spatial and contextual information to the hippocampus. Grid cells were identified in this region during the Mosers' navigation experiments.
Cognitive map: An internal representation of spatial relationships among places and routes. Grid cells are candidate building blocks for neural maps of an environment.
Systems neuroscience: The study of how networks of neurons produce perception, behavior, and cognition. Moser's work linked single-neuron recordings to the brain's larger navigation system.
Per Andersen: A Norwegian neuroscientist known for research on hippocampal physiology and learning. Moser trained in neuroscience in a Norwegian research tradition shaped by hippocampal physiology.
Place cell: A hippocampal neuron that fires strongly when an animal occupies a particular location. Place cells and grid cells provide complementary representations of position.

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