Moser, Moser, and O'Keefe shared the 2014 Nobel Prize for discovering a type of hippocampal neurons tuned to particular spatial locations, responding best when an animal is in a particular place. They called these neurons _____.
A) place cells
B) grid cells
C) time cells
D) location cells

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Moser, Moser, and O'Keefe discovered a type of hippocampal neurons that were found to be "tuned to particular spatial locations" and they are referred to as "place cells". The other options, grid cells and time cells, are also types of neurons but they were not specifically discovered by these researchers in relation to spatial locations. Therefore, the best choice is A) place cells.

Moser, Moser, and O'Keefe Shared the 2014 Nobel Prize for Discovering