Grid neuron
Células de red
- Date
- 2005 · confidence high
- Place
- Trondheim, Norway
- Credited to
- Edvard Moser y May-Britt Moser
- Field
- Life & health
What was discovered
Neurons in the entorhinal cortex that fire in a regular hexagonal pattern as an animal moves, acting as a spatial positioning system in the brain; discovered by Edvard and May-Britt Moser.
What it led to
- 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, shared with John O'Keefe
- Reference neural model for the dynamic computation of self-position
- Advances in understanding the mechanisms of spatial memory and navigation