Psychology 3442F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Educational Neuroscience, Neuroplasticity, Temporal Lobe
8 Apr 2015
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Ta: kelsey santerre: office: ssc 7206, send her an e-mail to set up an appointment, office hours: mondays 1-2pm. 4 when saying how interested they were in brain research. Maguire saw these drivers as having to memorize a mental map of the city of london (spatial learning) They hypothesized that areas of the brain critical for memory (medial temporal lobe, hippocampus) should change as taxi drivers had more experience. They found a positive correlation between the time an individual spent as a taxi driver and the size of their posterior hippocampus. The individuals with smaller volumes of the anterior hippocampus had also spent larger amounts of time as a taxi driver (negative correlation) Plasticity is not just the gaining of tissue, but there are also declines (it is not an all or none process) They looked at the amount of response to fearful faces.
