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Question 1

How many Experimental tasks were there?

Answer 1

1. There were six tasks, each performed twice, with task order counterbalanced within and between subjects; five of the tasks are relevant to this discussion.

Question 2

What is the topographical knowledge task?

Answer 2

a. in one, taxi drivers were given a starting and destination points in the greater London area.
b. They had to describe overtly during scan acquisition the shortest legal route between the start and destinations

Question 3

What is the Re-calling task?

Answer 3

Involved recalling and describing the appearance of individual world-famous landmarks (not in London) that subjects had never visited.

Question 4

What is the important difference of the Tasks?

Answer 4

Is that the route requires sequencing whereas the description of the landmark does not.