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| complete name: |
May-Britt Moser |
| nobel prize: |
medicine |
| award year: |
2014 |
| together with: |
John O'Keefe |
| together with: |
Edvard Moser |
| prize share: |
Prize share: 1/4 |
| rational: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014 was divided, one half awarded 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." |
| biography: |
Biography |
| laureate facts: |
Facts |
| laureate lecture: |
Lecture |
| given name: |
May-Britt |
| family name: |
Moser |
| occupation: |
physician |
| occupation: |
professor |
| occupation: |
psychologist |
| occupation: |
neurologist |
| field of work: |
neuroscience |
| work location: |
Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway |
| description: |
May-Britt Moser is a Norwegian psychologist, neuroscientist, and head of department of the Centre for Neural Computation at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU). She and her then-husband, Edvard Moser, pioneered research on the brain's mechanism for representing space together with their mentor John O'Keefe. They shared the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine with O'Keefe, awarded for work concerning the grid cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as several additional space-representing cell types in the same circuit that make up the positioning system in the brain. Moser discovered types of cells that are important for determining position (spatial representation) close to the hippocampus, an area located in the center of the brain. Moser investigated correlations between the anatomical structure of the hippocampus and social learning in rats. Moser's work gave the ability for scientists to gain new knowledge into the cognitive processes and spacial deficits associated with human neurological conditions such as Alzheimer's disease. The Mosers were educated at the University of Oslo and were appointed associate professors in psychology and neuroscience at NTNU in 1996. They were instrumental in the establishment of the Centre for the Biology of Memory (CBM) in 2002 and the Institute for Systems Neuroscience at NTNU in 2007. The Mosers were 1 in 5 other couples to win a Nobel Prize. |
| image copyright: |
© Nobel Media AB. Photo: A. Mahmoud |
| image citation: |
The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 2014. NobelPrize.org. Nobel Media AB 2018. <https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/medicine/2014/summary/> |
| date birth: |
1963 |
| usual name: |
May-Britt Moser |
