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Study: Brain changes seen in cabbies who take ‘The Knowledge’

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Brain changes seen in cab­bies who take ‘The Knowl­edge (BBC Health):

“The struc­ture of a Lon­don taxi dri­ver’s brain changes dur­ing the gru­el­ing process of learn­ing the quick­est way around the cap­i­tal, scans reveal. Dozens of trainee dri­vers had MRI scans before and after they acquired “The Knowl­edge”, mem­o­riz­ing hun­dreds of jour­neys and street names.

The Uni­ver­si­ty Col­lege Lon­don team, writ­ing in Cur­rent Biol­o­gy, found brain parts linked to mem­o­ry grew big­ger. [Read more…] about Study: Brain changes seen in cab­bies who take ‘The Knowledge’