Entry 5 “Researchers have found that higher-rated chess players are more likely to engage the frontal and parietal cortices of the brain when they look at the board, which suggests that they are recalling information from long-term memory. Lower-ranked players are more likely to engage the medial temporal lobes, which suggests that they are encoding new information.”
This passage explains that when you use your frontal (portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments.) and parietal (portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the head and toward the rear; receives sensory input for touch and body position.) cortices of the brain they are recalling …show more content…
Maguire concluded that all of that way-finding around London had physically altered the gross structure of their …show more content…
The passage also explains how not only are kids brain able to adapt but adult brains are also able to form new neural connections. For the cabbies since there hippocampus was seven percent larger than the normal person they would have better procedural memory. This is very important for cab drivers because they need to go through a procedure to drive. They need to check mirrors, press gas, change gear, stop at traffic signs, and follow routes that they usually follow. Spatial navigation is a part of procedural memory because going on a route is a procedure that you do over and over again because it is part of your routine. Each time they went on a route they created more neural connections. It is believed that as a kid your brain has the most plasticity (the brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.) to grow and adapt if need be but these cab drivers are adults and their brains are changing. The longer there were cab drivers the more the hippocampus grew. Could it be like weight training where you life your muscles get bigger? But, here it has to do with the brain.
This passage explains that when you use your frontal (portion of the cerebral cortex lying just behind the forehead; involved in speaking and muscle movements and in making plans and judgments.) and parietal (portion of the cerebral cortex lying at the top of the head and toward the rear; receives sensory input for touch and body position.) cortices of the brain they are recalling …show more content…
Maguire concluded that all of that way-finding around London had physically altered the gross structure of their …show more content…
The passage also explains how not only are kids brain able to adapt but adult brains are also able to form new neural connections. For the cabbies since there hippocampus was seven percent larger than the normal person they would have better procedural memory. This is very important for cab drivers because they need to go through a procedure to drive. They need to check mirrors, press gas, change gear, stop at traffic signs, and follow routes that they usually follow. Spatial navigation is a part of procedural memory because going on a route is a procedure that you do over and over again because it is part of your routine. Each time they went on a route they created more neural connections. It is believed that as a kid your brain has the most plasticity (the brain’s ability to change, especially during childhood, by reorganizing after damage or by building new pathways based on experience.) to grow and adapt if need be but these cab drivers are adults and their brains are changing. The longer there were cab drivers the more the hippocampus grew. Could it be like weight training where you life your muscles get bigger? But, here it has to do with the brain.