Professor May-Britt Moser and her husband Edvard Moser lead the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience (director and
co-director, respectively), as well as the Centre for the Biology of Memory at
the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. Their research has provided
key insights into how spatial location and spatial memory are computed in the
brain. One of these insights has led to an immediate revision of
well-established views of how the brain calculates position and how the results
of these computations are used by memory networks in the hippocampus – an
insight that may ultimately benefit the development of tools for diagnostics
and treatment of Alzheimer's disease.
Edvard and May-Britt were born in Norway,
and attended the University of Oslo. Both are members of The Royal Norwegian
Society of Sciences and Letters, and The Norwegian Academy of Science and
Letters. They have also led the Kavli Institute since its establishment in
2007.
In this special interview, Edvard and
May-Britt Moser explain how spatial locations and memories interact in the
brain, how their own research began and has advanced, and the discovery of grid
cells in the entorhinal cortex, as well as look ahead at the potential impact
new insights may have for fighting
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