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Brain Ponderings podcast with Mark Mattson

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What's the Nobel Prize for the Primary Visual Cortex?

Most of your work's been in rats. Unfortunately you can't ask a rat to close its eyes and then tell you what. But you've developed methods where you can nevertheless get towards an understanding of the circuits involved in that kind of thing. And can you talk about you mentioned Hubel and Wiesel getting the Nobel Prize for their work on the primary visual cortex? Did you talk about a more recent Nobel Prize awarded for identifying some cells and mechanisms that are involved in navigation? Sure. The Nobel Prize was awarded in 2014 I believe into John O'Keefe in London and Edward and my Rick Moser in Toronto, Norway for discoveries of cells called playcells.

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