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Posterior hippocampus
- Maguire et al. (2000) studied 16 London taxi drivers and found an increase in the volume of grey matter in the posterior hippocampus compared to a control group. This area of the brain is involved in short-term memory and spatial navigation.
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Mar 22, 2021 · Maguire et al. (2000) Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers. Background information: According to Maguire, the role of the hippocampus is to facilitate spatial memory, in the form of navigation.
These new findings (Chadwick et al., in press; Mullally, Intraub, & Maguire, 2012) show that the hippocampus is not only involved in constructing internal representations of scenes when explicitly requested, or even when you recall a past experience, plan a route, or imagine the future; in fact, the hippocampus is constructing scenes all the ...
- Eleanor A. Maguire, Sinéad L. Mullally
- 2013
Jul 9, 2016 · The hippocampus is one of the most closely scrutinized brain structures in neuroscience. While traditionally associated with memory and spatial cognition, in more recent years it has also been linked with other functions, including aspects of perception and imagining fictitious and future scenes.
- Eleanor A. Maguire, Helene Intraub, Sinéad L. Mullally
- 2016
the healthy hippocampus is engaged when imagining fictitious (Hassabis, Kumaran, & Maguire, 2007) and future (Addis et al., 2007) scenes, led Hassabis and Maguire (2007, 2009) to pro-pose the scene construction theory (SCT). The SCT posits that the hippocampus facilitates the construction of atemporal
Dec 8, 2011 · Eleanor Maguire and Katherine Woollett, neuroscientists at University College London, wanted to know whether all this learning changes the part of the brain that deals with memory, called the...
- Kerri Smith
- 2011
Feb 11, 2016 · In this Opinion article, Zeidman and Maguire show how improved functional imaging techniques are shedding light on the precise anatomy of this region and the contribution of different parts of...
The hippocampus is one of the most closely scrutinized brain structures in neuroscience. While traditionally associated with memory and spatial cognition, in more recent years it has also been linked with other functions, including aspects of perception and imagining fictitious and future scenes.