Maguire

Question 1

What is the sample of Maguires study?

Answer 1

16 Male taxi drivers, all right handed, all licensed taxi drivers, mean age 44
16 Male non-taxi drivers, matched on age,all right handed.

Question 2

What research method?

Answer 2

Quasi

Question 3

How did Maguire conduct his study?

Answer 3

1.Scan of the taxi drivers brains, whilst the scans of the non-taxi drivers were taken from the MRI scan
2.All scans were analyzed by VBM which identifies grey matter density in regions of the brain. They compared taxi drivers and non-taxi drivers.
3.Pixel counting compared the volume of the anterior (front),body and posterior (back) cross sections of the hippocampi, of taxi drivers and 16 matched non-taxi drivers.

Question 4

What apparatus did Maguire use?

Answer 4

MRI scanner
Scans then analyzed using VBM and Pixel counting.

Question 5

What is the aim of Maguires study?

Answer 5

To investigate the difference in volume in the hippocampus of London taxi drivers compared to non-taxi drivers.

Question 6

What were the results of Maguire’s study?

Answer 6

No Significant difference in overall volume but…
1. Taxi Drivers had a greater grey volume in the right and left posterior hippocampus than the non-taxi drivers.
2.Non-Taxi Drivers had a greater grey volume in the right and left anterior hippocampus than the taxi drivers.