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Also known as Edvard I. Moser, Edvard Ingjald Moser, Edvard I Moser

Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist

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Edvard Moser is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist whose work has contributed to our understanding of how the brain works. His research matters because it helps explain fundamental processes in neuroscience that affect how we think, learn, and navigate the world.

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Edvard Ingjald Moser ( pronounced [ˈɛ̀dvɑɖ ˈmoːsər]) is a Norwegian psychologist and neuroscientist, who as of May 2024 is a professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim.

He shared the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 with long-term collaborator and then-wife 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, a specialized type of neuron that respond to specific locations in space. Together with May-Britt Moser he established the Moser research environment.

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