Taxi drivers are not like ordinary people - at least in London: the need to keep in mind a huge map of the area and mentally to work with it, leads to changes in the brain.
The phenomenon is known, this is not the first year: taxi drivers - more precisely, the best of them, who gave the profession for many years and well oriented to ... However, until now it was clear that there is a reason, and that - due to. That is the best and successful taxi drivers are people who have a large hippocampus and are better able to ... Whether it is training the hippocampus and increases in the course of this work.
Therefore, the British researchers, led by Eleanor Megvayr (Eleanor Maguire) conducted an experiment in parallel with the three experimental groups. The first were those most taxi drivers are able to work effectively with the mental map and the (already in the course of the experiment ) has successfully passed the appropriate tests, which in London are required to obtain a license and shall be deemed sufficiently rigorous. The second group consisted of those who failed the tests, and the third was a control group, which included ordinary people and not thought to be taxi drivers. The observation lasted for more than four years, as before, in the middle and the end of this period, each volunteer was passing through a complete scan of the brain in the tomograph.
The result was, in general, is expected: the hippocampus is really possible to ... Before beginning the process of this part of the brain in all three groups did not differ. But as far as training people who then passed the test and included in the first group, the hippocampus significantly increased. Whereas those who failed the test he remained the same as that of the third group.
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