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 · In her earliest studies, Maguire discovered that London taxi drivers had more gray matter in their posterior hippocampi than people who were similar in age, education and intelligence, but who did Author: Ferris Jabr. Eleanor Maguire, Professor of Cognitive Neuroscience at the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UC London conducted a study of bus and taxi drivers in London, tracking their brain waves through the hippocampus with the use of a functional MRI (fMRI) scanner.  · Previous studies of qualified London taxi drivers, led by Professor Eleanor Maguire from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), have shown a greater volume of grey matter - the nerve cells in the brain where processing takes place - in an area known as the posterior hippocampus and less in the anterior hippocampus .

From previous studies (pre-Maguire) it was impossible to know whether differences in brain anatomy are predetermined, or whether the brain is susceptible to plastic changes, in response to environmental stimulation – in this case driving a taxi. Taxi drivers undergo extensive training, known as ‘The Knowledge’ and therefore make an ideal. In her earliest studies, Maguire discovered that London taxi drivers had more gray matter in their posterior hippocampi than people who were similar in age, education and intelligence, but who did. Previous studies of qualified London taxi drivers, led by Professor Eleanor Maguire from the Wellcome Trust Centre for Neuroimaging at UCL (University College London), have shown a greater volume.

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