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To figure out the relationship be tween the grid cells and the rat's location, neuroscientists picked a single grid cell to study. MATHEMATICS BENJAMIN ADRIC DUNN, A DATA SCIENTIST AT THE Norwegian University of Science and Technology, shows me a picture of unevenly spaced dots arranged vaguely like the rocks at Stonehenge. In 2014 John O'Keefe and research partners May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser received the Nobel Prize in medicine for discovering, respectively, place cells and grid cells, types of neurons that activate when an animal is in specific locations. This time, instead of marking the positions in a box where a single grid cell fired, the researchers studied the collective activity of an entire network of grid cells. [Extracted from the article]
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