neuroplasticity

Question 1

neuroplasticity

Answer 1

the brains ability to change as a result of experiences (learning mechanism or cortical reorganization)

Question 2

Maguire (2000) - quasi experiment

Answer 2

• to examine the structural changes in the brain of london taxi drivers
• participants were taxi drivers who had been driving for more than 1.5 years, and participants who did not drive taxis
• MRI scans were obtained
• increased gray matter in the taxi drivers hypocampus compared to those who did not drive
• gray matter redistributed fro, the anterior hypocampus (learning new spatial information) to posterior hypocampus (utilizing spatial orientation) indicating that practice with spatial navigation affects hypocampus