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Cross-sectional brain diagram highlighting the hippocampus, anterior and posterior regions, and an inset scatter plot showing a positive link between years as a taxi driver and right posterior hippocampal volume

Brain plasticity is the brain's ability to change structure or function in response to experience. Maguire et al. asked whether long-term navigation experience in London taxi drivers was linked to structural changes in the hippocampus.

Maguire et al. (2000): Taxi drivers Lesson

  1. A Level
  2. /Psychology
  3. /Maguire et al. (2000): Taxi drivers

Step-by-step lessons covering OCR A Level Psychology Maguire et al. (2000): Taxi drivers for A Level Psychology. Each lesson works through exam-style questions in Component 01, Component 02 and Component 03 format. Start with the compulsory core topics before tackling the more evaluation-heavy optional and issues-and-debates content.

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