The Nobel awards the discovery of the brain’s internal GPS – Newspaper

The brain has a kind of internal GPS that allows us to quickly process the environment around us and guide us in space. American John O’Keefe was the first to determine that a set of cells in the hippocampus exercised that function and, 30 years later, the marriage of the Norwegian Edvard and May-Britt Moser I. noted that an area of ​​the cortex entorhinal also involved in the process. Yesterday, the three were awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a few jobs that have resulted, according to the Karolinska Institute said, “a paradigm shift in the understanding of work …