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Brain Plasticity

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London taxi drivers have "big brains"#

Maguire et al (2006) use structural MRIs to demonstrate the London taxi drivers' increasing experience navigating the streets of London results in their brains changing

years of navigation experience correlated with hippocampal gray matter volume only in taxi drivers, with right posterior gray matter volume increasing (Maguire et al, 2006, p. 1091)

References#

Maguire, E. A., Woollett, K., & Spiers, H. J. (2006). London taxi drivers and bus drivers: A structural MRI and neuropsychological analysis. Hippocampus, 16(12), 1091--1101. https://doi.org/10.1002/hipo.20233