Cabbies helping Alzheimer’s research because of amazing memory of London routes

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The Black Cab drivers have been given MRI scans while remembering the quickest routes through London in a bid to find out how their brains store the information

Cabbies are helping Alzheimer’s researchers thanks to their amazing memory and recall of routes around the capital.Previous research has shown that London taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus - the region of the brain which looks after learning and memory - than the general population, and it continues to grow the longer they are on the job.

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