May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser (IMAGE)

Norwegian University of Science and Technology

May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser

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Nearly 20 years ago, the Mosers discovered the activity structure of single grid cells. What they found was a hexagonal grid pattern that functions as the brain’s metric and coordinate system for space. Today they uncovered the activity structure from the population of grid cells which can be visualized as the surface of a doughnut

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Rita Elmkvist Nilsen, Norwegian University of Science and Technology's Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience

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