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In what year was May-Britt Moser awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine?

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May-Britt Moser was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 2014 for her work on the brain's spatial navigation system. Moser and her husband, Edvard Moser, were jointly awarded the prize for their discoveries of the grid cells and place cells in the hippocampus, which are two types of neurons that are involved in spatial navigation.