localisation Flashcards
what is localisation
the idea that a specific part of the brain is responsible for a specific function or behaviour
what was the aim of maguires study
to see if the brains of taxi drivers were different to the brains of non taxi drivers
who were the participants in maguires study
16 right handed male taxi drivers
what was the MRI measured with
VBM and pixel counting
what did VBM show
the volume of the hippocampus correlated with the amount of time spent as a taxi driver
what did pixel counting show
the posterior hippocampus was larger in taxi drivers and anterior was smaller.
what are posterior and anterior responsible for
posterior is responsible for previously learnt spatial information. anterior is responsible for the encoding of new spatial information.
