URST 400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Oliver Sacks, Hackney Carriage, David Hume
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Mind-city feedback: when our existence in the city, shapes and re-shapes our minds. London cab driver study --> did a test called "the knowledge", showed that parts of the brain that had more spatial navigation was bigger and more developed, while the other parts were smaller as they were unused. However, our brains are going to be rewired again as now there is. Humean: when humans are nothing but just a set of perceptions. How the modern realm has neurologically impacted us.
