2014年诺贝尔生理学或医学奖 英文.pptVIP

1.Preface 2.Introduction of the winners 3.Discovery Process 4.Significance Many animals have outstanding ability of guidance Even if the long march, regardless of the cloudy weather, these amazing animals can always know where the road is. In 2005, May-Britt and Edvard Moser discovered another key component of the brain’s positioning system. They identified another type of nerve cell, which they called “grid cells”, that generate a coordinate system and allow for precise positioning and pathfinding. Their subsequent research showed how place and grid cells make it possible to determ