Recalling routes around London: Activation of the right hippocampus in taxi drivers

Journal of Neuroscience

Volumn 17, Issue 18, 1997, Pages 7103-7110

  Maguire, Eleanor A ^a   Frackowiak, Richard S J ^a   Frith, Christopher D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hippocampus; Landmarks; PET; Semantic memory; Taxi drivers; Topographical memory

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PROTOCOL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DRIVER; HIPPOCAMPUS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NORMAL HUMAN; POSITRON EMISSION TOMOGRAPHY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; RIGHT HEMISPHERE; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TRAVEL; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 0030824005     PISSN: 02706474     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1523/jneurosci.17-18-07103.1997     Document Type: Article

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