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The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]
Published 2 years, 6 months ago
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John O’Keefe shared the Kavli Prize in Neuroscience in 2014 for discovering that neurons in the hippocampus encode an animal’s location and create a cognitive map for navigation.
This podcast was produced for the Kavli Prize by Scientific American Custom Media, a division separate from the magazine’s board of editors.