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Analysis for Science Librarians of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: The Life and Work of John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and May-Britt Moser

Neyda V. Gilman
2015 Science & technology libraries (New York, N.Y.)  

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Navigation and awareness of space is a complicated cognitive process that requires sensory input and calculation, as well as spatial memory. The 2014 Nobel Laureates in Physiology or Medicine, John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and May-Britt Moser, have worked to explain how an environmental map forms and is used in the brain (Nobelprize.org 2014b). O'Keefe discovered place cells that allow the brain to learn and remember specific locations. The Mosers added the second part of the "positioning system
more » ... n the brain" with their discovery of grid cells, which provide the brain with a navigational coordinate system (Nobelprize.org 2014b).
doi:10.1080/0194262x.2014.1001544 fatcat:34zinx6t6rbu7neagysmb7x53m
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Neyda V. Gilman. "Analysis for Science Librarians of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: The Life and Work of John O'Keefe, Edvard Moser, and May-Britt Moser." Science & technology libraries (New York, N.Y.) 34.1 (2015) 1-18