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Question 1

Recall of routes around London by taxi drivers in the present study activated the same brain regions compared with a baseline task.

Answer 1

Thus, for topographical memory at least, the distinction between episodic and semantic memory seems to have no anatomical basis.
This observation indicates a role for the right hippocampus in processing spatial layouts over long time courses not assessed by the short time scales of previous studies

Question 2

The absence of activation of the hippocampus in the two simulation studies that used novel stimuli and the fact that taxi drivers were familiar with the routes in the present study make it unlikely that

Answer 2

unlikely that hippocampus activation in topographical memory tasks is attributable to novelty of stimuli

Question 3

The current study also set out to assess the neural instantiation of landmark knowledge where such knowledge was not

Answer 3

Where such knowledge was not confounded by location information about position within a large-scale spatial layout.

Question 4

The involvement of many of the same brain regions in routes and landmarks memory indicates that

Answer 4

Indicates that the topographical memory system is primed for relevant topographical information even when the landmarks, as in this case, have no spatial connotation.

Question 5

A final aim of the study was to examine topographical memory and also nontopographic semantic memory retrieval to ascertain whether common brain regions are involved regardless of memory type.

Answer 5

Recall of film plots was associated with brain regions different from those activated during the routes task.