Hippocampus and Spatial Navigation
- Aim: Does the hippocampus play a role in spatial navigation?
- Method: The independent variable was the group of people and how much they had been navigating - they compared London taxi drivers to a control group
- The dependent variable was the hippocampus size
- Results: They found that taxi drivers have a larger posterior hippocampus than the control group
- The size of the posterior hippocampus positively correlated with how long the taxi drivers had been working as taxi drivers
- Conclusion: This suggests that the posterior hippocampus has the localized function of spatial navigation
- The longer you spend taxi driving the more it affects the posterior size of the hippocampus
- This suggests that practicing navigation (a form of cognition) affects hippocampus size (physiology)
- You can also use this study for the syllabus point of an interaction of cognition and physiology
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