Memory & Space
Professor Eleanor Maguire FMedSci
For A-Level Students
The following research paper is part of the A-level Psychology syllabus:
Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers
Other related papers from our study of London taxi drivers that might be of interest are listed below. (Note that all the links here are to pdf files. The Adobe pdf file reader can be downloaded for free from http://www.adobe.com/)
Acquiring 'the Knowledge' of London's layout drives structural brain changes
Talent in the taxi: a model system for exploring expertise
London Taxi Drivers and Bus Drivers: A Structural MRI and Neuropsychological Analysis
Navigational expertise may compromise anterograde associative memory
The effect of navigational expertise on wayfinding in new environments
Navigation expertise and the human hippocampus: A structural brain imaging analysis
Non-spatial expertise and hippocampal grey matter volume in humans
Exploring anterograde associative memory in London taxi drivers
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