When May-Britt Moser gave her Nobel lecture on Sunday, she had some help from the audience. At her signal Moser’s colleagues stood up in the audience and made popping sounds. These are the sounds that the scientists hear when rat brain cells communicate with each other.
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Scientists and technical staff from the Kavli Institute of Systems Neuroscience and the Centre for Neural Computation practice for a most unusual performance: to make popping noises during May-Britt Moser’s Nobel lecture. Photo: Liv Ragnhild Sjursen