UK researchers have shown that cab drivers who learn the layout of the capital city - 'the Knowledge' - exhibit growth in the brain, challenging the notion that children are the only ones with 'plastic' minds.
now london is a tricky town to get your head around spatially, but i would imagine any self-respecting academic or polymath would feed similar amounts of data into their brains, so why do we keep coming back to taxi-drivers?
are taxi drivers in rio di janeiro similar?
do different sections of their brains develop too?
this snippet of neurotrivia ha been making rounds for years, i just wonder why they don't take it further.
human tom toms proves only so much... kalahari bushmen probably have similar memory banking brain-mapping the nuances of their territories.
turn left at the pig wallow... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
