Edvard Moser, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Edvard Moser

Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist

Date of Birth: 27-Apr-1962

Place of Birth: Ålesund, Møre og Romsdal, Norway

Profession: professor, psychologist, neuroscientist

Nationality: Norway

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Edvard Moser

  • Edvard Ingjald Moser (pronounced [?dv?? mo?s?r]; born 27 April 1962) is a Norwegian professor of psychology and neuroscience at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience, at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.
  • In 2005 he discovered grid cells (E.
  • Moser & M-B.
  • Moser, 2005) in the brain's medial entorhinal cortex.
  • Grid cells are specialized neurons that provide the brain with a coordinate system and a metric for space.
  • In 2018 he discovered a neural network that expresses your sense of time in experiences and memories located in the brain's lateral entorhinal cortex (Moser & Moser, 2018) He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with long-term collaborator May-Britt Moser and previous mentor John O'Keefe for their work identifying the brain's positioning system.
  • The two main components of the brain's GPS are; grid cells and place cells (O'Keefe, 1971), a specialized type of neuron that respond to specific locations in space.
  • Together with May-Britt Moser he established the Moser research environment, which they lead. Moser was born to German parents who had moved to Norway in the 1950s, and grew up in Ålesund.
  • He received his education as a psychologist at the Department of Psychology, University of Oslo and obtained a PhD in neurophysiology at the Faculty of Medicine at the same university in 1995; in 1996 he was appointed as associate professor in biological psychology at the Department of Psychology at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU); he was promoted to professor of neuroscience in 1998.
  • In 2002 his research group was given the status of a separate "centre of excellence".
  • Edvard Moser has led a succession of research groups and centres, collectively known as the Moser research environment.
  • He is an external scientific member of the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology, with which he has collaborated over several years.

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