Spotted over at Hacker News is a link to the announcement The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded: half to John O´Keefe, and 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:
This year´s Nobel Laureates have discovered a positioning system, an “inner GPS” in the brain that makes it possible to orient ourselves in space, demonstrating a cellular basis for higher cognitive function.
[In 1971] O’Keefe, a neuroscientist at University College London, discovered specialized “place cells” that were activated when a rat explored a room.
In 2005, the Mosers together discovered another component of the brain’s positioning system. The “grid cells” they found create a coordinate system by firing at regular spatial intervals as an animal explores a space. They went on to show how grid cells and place cells work together.
Story in Nature, and a corresponding feature story on the Mosers. Also a link to the original Hacker News Discussion.
(Score: 1, Troll) by TheRaven on Monday October 06 2014, @02:07PM
sudo mod me up
(Score: 2) by lhsi on Monday October 06 2014, @02:12PM
My guess is that it was originally ...the "inner GPS"
There was a bug whereby using quotes in a submission title stripped out everything after the first quote, maybe that's appeared again?
(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Monday October 06 2014, @02:18PM
That was the submission title. Good Guess :)
(Score: 1) by azrael on Monday October 06 2014, @02:30PM
Hopefully now it is both there and there :)
(Score: 2) by paulej72 on Monday October 06 2014, @02:36PM
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(Score: 1) by martyb on Monday October 06 2014, @02:54PM
Yes, the original submission [soylentnews.org] had " around Brain's GPS.
I replaced each of the Numeric Character Entities (NCEs) with a regular quote character and it looks okay, now. Note that each NCE was, itself, "de-referenced". with an """ instead of just an """ in each place.
Wit is intellect, dancing. I'm too old to act my age. Life is too important to take myself seriously.
(Score: 2) by tonyPick on Monday October 06 2014, @03:45PM
Interestingly (or not) those appeared on the preview round trip. So I put in plain quotes, and they came back as the NCE's - caught them the first time around, but obviously didn’t spot them on the last "check the links and hit submit" cycle.
(Score: 2) by MrGuy on Monday October 06 2014, @03:00PM
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(Score: 1, Funny) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @02:12PM
The takeaway is that the honorees aren't just innovative in medicine. They're pretty deep thinkers.
(Score: 2) by buswolley on Monday October 06 2014, @05:57PM
Taking back my mod. Misunderstood.
subicular junctures
(Score: 2) by monster on Tuesday October 07 2014, @03:45PM
You know moderation no longer can be undone by commenting, do you?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @02:15PM
finally an explanation why rearranging my fridge magnets helps me feel better when i'm in a down mood!
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Monday October 06 2014, @03:04PM
https://imgur.com/gallery/6qLX3WR [imgur.com]
(Score: 1) by pkrasimirov on Wednesday October 08 2014, @02:08PM
I was wondering if these neurons were like magnetic field receptors or some other stuff that comes to mind reading "Brain GPS". It turns out no, they are just specialized memory for places:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Place_cell [wikipedia.org]