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The big idea

The big idea

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

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Step-by-step lessons covering OCR AS Level Psychology Maguire et al. (2000): Taxi drivers for AS Level Psychology. Each lesson works through exam-style questions.