Edvard and May-Britt Moser: A journey into entorhinal cortex

Edvard and May-Britt Moser's discoveries - in particular the "grid
cells" - which the magazine Science described as the most important finding
in the field for two decades - are quite remarkable. They have shown how
the brain calculates the position of the organism in its spatial environment, completely overturning prior conventional thinking in the field.

Moser, Director and Co-director respectively of the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. and to the German biologist Stefan Jentsch, a Director at the Max-Planck Institute of Biochemistry in Martinsried.

A film by Massive Rhino. Reporter/director : Per A.D. Jynge. Photo: Håkon Garvin. Animations by Jan André Granheim and Terje Kolberg. Music by Magnus Lillemark.

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