title: A place and a grid in the sun.
abstract: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, awarded to John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser, and Edvard I. Moser, recognizes the first deep-brain insights into a cognitive function. Their insights established a new view for how the brain represents spatial location.
authors.affiliation: Kavli Institute for Brain Science, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA; Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA; Departments of Neuroscience, Biochemistry and Molecular Biophysics, and Psychiatry, Columbia University, 1051 Riverside Drive, New York, NY 10032, USA. Electronic address: erk5@columbia.edu.
authors.forename: Eric
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Kandel
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002170:Canada; D004739:England; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology*; D049673:History, 20th Century; D006801:Humans; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history*; D009613:Nobel Prize; D009664:Norway; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history*; D065854:Spatial Navigation