Neuroplasticity

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"# Neuroplasticity London, 1998. A taxi driver named Albert pulls up to the Salk Institute in California. He's not picking up a fare. He's having his brain scanned. Eleanor Maguire, a neuroscientist, has a hunch. These cabbies spend years memorizing twenty-five thousand streets. The Knowledge, they call it. Takes three years to pass. Nearly half of them fail. And Maguire wants to know: does all that navigation... leave a mark? Turns out? Yeah. It does. The posterior hippocampus — the par..."