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This year the Kavli Prize for Neuroscience, worth one million US dollars, is being awarded for research on "neural mechanisms underlying perception and decision". Winfried Denk, who works at the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and also at the Max Planck Institute of Neurobiology in Martinsried, will share the prize with Cornelia Isabella Bargmann from the Rockefeller University (USA) and Ann M. Graybiel, MIT (USA). The prizes will be presented by King Harald of Norway at a ceremony in Oslo on September 4th.

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