Maguire
- Created by: jennymayg13
- Created on: 26-04-14 15:50
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- Maguire
- Aim
- Changes in the brain could be detected in brains of humans who have extreme experiences of spatial navigation
- Participants
- 16 male taxi drivers between 32 and 62 years of age with at least 18 months experience
- Findings
- Taxi drivers had smaller anterior hippocampal cross sections
- The longer the taxi drivers had been a taxi driver the less grey matter there was in the anterior hippocampus
- Taxi drivers had larger posterior hippocampal cross sections
- Taxi drivers had smaller anterior hippocampal cross sections
- Method
- Quasi experiment
- 2 existing groups of participants non taxi drivers and taxi drivers
- Analysing MRI scans
- Conclusion
- The hippocampus increases in size with use over time
- Aim
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