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notblackblackguy t1_j55bnh7 wrote

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Saw a study recently that showed London cab drivers have enlarged hippocampus due to memorising the streets of London

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Torodaddy t1_j56av3m wrote

aren't you born with whatever sized brain you have?

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notblackblackguy t1_j56g9hu wrote

The paper:

https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.070039597

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Torodaddy t1_j576ca1 wrote

the study is biased, they should of used for control brains of taxi drivers that were just starting out versus veteran drivers. All the study is saying is taxi drivers have larger hippocampus you can't use this to say it grew. It's like saying basketball players grew tall because they play basketball

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DConstructed t1_j56fbbn wrote

That’s really interesting. Do you have a link?

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notblackblackguy t1_j56fj51 wrote

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/2022/feb/london-taxi-drivers-brains-being-scanned-alzheimers-research#:~:text=Previous%20studies%20have%20shown%20that,confusion%20associated%20with%20the%20disease.

That's the article which has a link to the source paper at the bottom.

And the actual paper: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.070039597

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