The discovery of the grid cells

Why we know where we are

Listen to an interview with Edvard Moser. He, his wife May-Britt Moser and Richard O’Keefe won the nobel prize in medicine in 2014. They discovered the grid cells, which form together with other cells a kind of GPS system of the brain.

Edvard Moser explains how he discovered the grid cells and what the discovery could mean for the research on Alzheimer and other diseases of the brain.