Eleanor Maguire has extended the research for which she and her colleagues (David Gadian, Ingrid Johnsrude, Catriona Good, John Ashburner,Richard Frackowiak, and Christopher Frith of University College London) were awarded the 2003 Ig Nobel Prize in psychology. The original paper is: “Navigation-Related Structural Change In the Hippocampi of Taxi Drivers“, It compared the brains of London taxi drivers—all of […]
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Celebrating the taxi-driver brain researcher
The Wellcome Trust celebrates Eleanor Maguire and her Ig Nobel Prize-winning research about the brains of London taxi drivers: Mapping memories – Eleanor Maguire and brain imaging To mark the 75th anniversary of the death of Henry Wellcome and the founding of the Wellcome Trust, we are publishing a series of 14 features on people […]