British-American shares Nobel Medicine Prize with Norwegian couple
Raw Story
Agence France-Presse
06 Oct 2014
British-American shares Nobel Medicine Prize with Norwegian couple
British-American researcher John O’Keefe on Monday won the Nobel Medicine Prize with a Norwegian couple, Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser, for discovering how the brain navigates.
They won the coveted prize for discovering an “inner GPS” which makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, the jury said.
“The discoveries of John O’Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser have solved a problem that has occupied philosophers and scientists for centuries,” it said.
“How does the brain create a map of the space surrounding us and how can we navigate our way through a complex environment?”....
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