title: The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine: a spatial model for cognitive neuroscience.
abstract: Understanding how the cognitive functions of the brain arise from its basic physiological components has been an enticing final frontier in science for thousands of years. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was awarded one half to John O'Keefe, the other half jointly to May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser "for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain." This prize recognizes both a paradigm shift in the study of cognitive neuroscience, and some of the amazing insights that have followed from it concerning how the world is represented within the brain.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and Institute of Neurology, University College London, 17 Queen Square, London WC1N 3AR, UK. Electronic address: n.burgess@ucl.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Neil
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Burgess
mesh_terms: D003071:Cognition; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D009488:Neurosciences; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010827:Physiology; D013028:Space Perception / Q000502:physiology*