title: The mantle of the heavens: Reflections on the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine or physiology.
abstract: The award of the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 2014 for the discovery of place and grid cells was both a personal award to three great scientists and also a mark of the maturity of systems neuroscience as a discipline. This article offers both personal and scientific reflections on these discoveries, detailing both how getting to know all three winners had an impact on my life and the research questions that we shared in common work together. It ends with brief reflections on three important outstanding questions.
authors: Centre for Cognitive and Neural Systems, Edinburgh Neuroscience, The University of Edinburgh, 1 George Square, Edinburgh, United Kingdom.
authors: Richard G M
authors: RG
authors: Morris
mesh_terms: D001680:Biographies as Topic; D006624:Hippocampus / Q000502:physiology; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008568:Memory / Q000502:physiology; D009488:Neurosciences / Q000266:history; D009613:Nobel Prize; D010827:Physiology / Q000266:history
keywords: associative memory; grid cells; place cells; spatial learning; synaptic plasticity