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How London cabbies helped answer questions about the brain

15 May 2019

Professor Hugo Spiers (UCL Neuroscience) explains how a study of memory among London taxi drivers in 1990 led to the discovery of brain plasticity and how the research continues to inform our knowledge of how the brain continues to grow in adulthood.

Listen: BBC Radio 4’s ‘Destiny and the Brain’