Trio, including American, win medicine Nobel

John O'Keefe, May-Britt Moser and Edvard I. Moser won the 2014 Nobel Prize for medicine, the awarding committee said Monday.

The Nobel committee said the trio's research has helped explain how the brain creates "a map of the space surrounding us and how we can navigate our way through a complex environment" that is akin to an "inner GPS."

O'Keefe is an American-born scientist who works in the United Kingdom at University College London. He is also a British citizen.

May-Britt Moser and Edvard Moser are from Norway and are attached to the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim.

The 2014 Nobel Prize announcements ranging from economics to literature started Monday and run to Oct. 13.

Each prize is worth about $1.1 million. The awards will be handed out on Dec. 10, the anniversary of the 1896 death of prize creator Alfred Nobel.