John O'Keefe
John O'Keefe
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionScientist
Date of Birth18 November 1939
CountryUnited States of America
home work
What I tend to do is I try and get as much writing done... I get as much writing done at home before I go into work.
knights half eating
What baron or squire Or knight of the shire Lives half so well as a holy friar.
glasses weather people
A glass is good, and a lass is good, And a pipe to smoke in cold weather; The world is good, and the people are good, And we 're all good fellows together.
love sweet heart
Amo, amas, I love a lass, As a cedar tall and slender; Sweet cowslip's grace is her nominative case, And she's of the feminine gender.
activity behaviour causes mental move states
We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.
above britain continue easier punches science scientists weight
Britain punches way above its weight in science, and I think we need to continue to do that, and anything that makes it easier to bring scientists in will be very welcome.
biases due lack national nobel partly science selection
Science is the quintessential international endeavour, and the sterling reputation of the Nobel awards is partly due to the widely-perceived lack of national and other biases in the selection of the laureates.
anywhere best country next science scientists small village
Science is international: the best scientists can come from anywhere; they can come from next door, or they can come from a small village in a country anywhere in the world - we need to make it easier.
basis believe cognitive emotion entering era exciting ideas level networks neural operations possible study
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.
mind
I want to know how the mind works.
areas ask attacked basic cells earliest special turns understanding
It turns out that this part of the brain is one of the first areas that's attacked by Alzheimer's disease. So we can now use some of the basic understanding of this part of the brain to ask the simple question, 'What is going wrong with these special cells in the hippocampus at the very earliest stages?'
If you take my equipment away from me, I might as well retire.