The Nobel Prize in Medicine was won by the trio of Edvard Moser, May-Britt Moser and John O'Keefe, it emerged on Monday. The Nobel Prize awarding committee said the trio has helped explain the functioning of the brain and its abilities as an 'inner GPS'.

The trio's work helps demystify the functioning of the brain and how it helps us make our way in a complex surrounding by creating a map of the area around us. John O'Keefe is a citizen of Britain born in the United States. He works at the University College in London. Edvard Moser and May-Britt Moser belong to Norway. They are associated with the University of Science and Technology, Trondheim in Norway.

The announcements of 2014 Nobel Prize awards will continue till October 13. They range from literature to the fields of economics. The prize money of $1.1 million is given to winners in every category. The Nobel Prize awards will be given out at a formal ceremony on 10^th December. The date coincides with the death anniversary of the creator of the awards Alfred Nobel in 1896.

They discovered cells in the brain that function like a positioning system for your brain. It is like a hard wired GPS system. It will help in research for Alzheimer's disease. The research helps understand how we orient yourselves with respect to our surroundings. It helps understand our location, the way we are going and how we will remember it. It aids us in repeating our trips.  

The research focuses on the special cells of the brain that lie in the hippocampus and in entorhinal cortex and how they work together. The research was conducted in rats. Last year's Nobel Prize in medicine was awarded to the research that discovered how cells in our body divide and where and when they deliver molecules that they produce.