The Kavli Prize Presents: How Your Brain Maps the World [Sponsored]

Science Quickly

Jun 29, 2023•10 min

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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.

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