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The 2014 Nobel Prize in Medicine, "GPS for the brain"

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  • 06 October 2014
  • Roland Maurer
    • Psychologie et sciences de l'éducation, UNIGE
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The Nobel Prize for Medicine and Physiology has been awarded to three neurobiologists. Their work has led to a better understanding of how the human brain's geopositioning system works.

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