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Brain Maps For Space |
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Authors: |
May-Britt
Moser |
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(2013).ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited
by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye, H. Zhang European Council for Modeling
and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013 ISBN:
978-0-9564944-6-7 27th
European Conference on Modelling and Simulation, Aalesund, Norway, May 27th –
30th, 2013 |
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May-Britt Moser (2013).
Brain Maps For Space, ECMS 2013 Proceedings edited by: W. Rekdalsbakken, R. T. Bye,
H. Zhang, European Council for Modeling and Simulation. doi:10.7148/2013-0009 |
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DOI: |
http://dx.doi.org/10.7148/2013-0009 |
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Abstract: |
The brain controls spatial
navigation in mammals by activating functionally specialized cell types in the
medial temporal lobe. A key component of the spatial mapping system is the
place cell, located in the hippocampus. These cells – discovered by O´Keefe and Dostrovsky in 1971
- are active only when the animal is entering a specific location in the environment.
I will describe the discovery of another component of the mammalian spatial
mapping system – the grid cell – which we found upstream
of the hippocampus, in the medial entorhinal
cortex, in 2005. |
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