Brain Plasticity: How learning changes your brain
Posted on February 26th, 2008 by
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For instance, London taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus (in the posterior region) than London bus drivers (Maguire, Woollett, & Spiers, 2006)…. Why is that? It is because this region of the hippocampus is specialized in acquiring …
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