Maguire

Question 0

What was the aim of this study?

Answer 0

To investigate whether there was a difference in hippocampal volume between individuals who did or did not have extensive navigational experience

Question 1

What is the background to the study?

Answer 1

Concept of localisation, hippocampus’ role in navigation, ability to provide a cognitive map. Neural plasticity, brain structure and function change with experience. Concept the hippocampus grows with use.

Question 2

What was the study’s design?

Answer 2

A quasi experiment in a laboratory setting, with the taxi drivers and controls group as the IV and hippocampal volume as the DV