So, do you have a good sense of direction? This year's Nobel winners know why!!

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http://www.nature.com/news/nobel-prize-for-decoding-brain-s-sense-of-place-1.16093?WT.mc_id=TWT_NatureNews

Brain cells that make up the biological equivalent of a satellite-navigation system have garnered three scientists the 2014 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine. The discovery of the cells sheds light on one of neuroscience’s great mysteries — how we know where we are in space. John O’Keefe of University College London won half of the prize for his discovery in 1971 of ‘place’ cells in the hippocampus, a part of the brain associated with memory. Edvard and May-Britt Moser, who are married and jointly run a lab at the Kavli Institute for Systems Neuroscience in Trondheim, Norway, share the other half for their 2005 discovery of ‘grid’ cells in an adjacent brain structure, the entorhinal cortex. Along with other navigation cells, grid and place cells allow animals to keep track of their position. Both cell types were discovered in rats, but have since been found in humans.