Brains and Friends: Lynn Nadel wrote “The Hippocampus as a Cognitive Map” with John O’Keefe in 1978. Image by Courtesy of Lynn Nadel ...

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 ...

John O'Keefe, Ph.D., professor of cognitive neuroscience at University College London, is the recipient of the 2008 Neuroscience Prize of the Peter and Patricia Gruber Foundation Robin Leedy ...

The mammalian brain is known to produce mental representations of the spatial environment, known as cognitive maps, that help humans and animals navigate their surroundings. A subpopulation of ...

The 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to John O´Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser for their discoveries of cells that constitute a positioning system in the brain.

"Both the OFC and the hippocampus HC are implicated in the formation of cognitive maps and their generalization into schemas," wrote Wenhui Zong, Jingfeng Zhou and their colleagues in their paper.

Building on these results, O'Keefe and Nadel 3 proposed that the hippocampus provided the neural instantiation of a spatial map, and they further hypothesized that this map took the form of a ...

New Nobel laureate John O'Keefe and his group recorded groups of individual ... Computational modelling of the hippocampus' cognitive map has helped generate theoretical predictions which ...

Professor Andrew King of Oxford University said: “The discovery by John O’Keefe that neurons in the hippocampus revolutionised our understanding of how the brain knows where we are and is able ...

John O'Keefe, Nobel laureate 2014. ... Computational modelling of the hippocampus’ cognitive map has helped generate theoretical predictions which inform empirical investigations of hippocampal ...

FURTHER READING. The Hippocampus Book. Edited by Per Anderson, Richard Morris, David Amaral, Tim Bliss and John O'Keefe. Oxford University Press, 2006.