Mental Maps: Route-learning Changes Brain Tissue

Saturday, October 31, 2015 - 19:30 in Psychology & Sociology

Fifteen years ago, a study showed that the brains of London cab drivers had an enlargement in the hippocampus, a brain area associated with navigation. But questions remained: Did the experience of navigating London's complex system of streets change their brains, or did only the people with larger hippocampi succeed in becoming cab drivers? read more

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