“Birds in which spatial memory is particularly important”

— Eric R. Kandel

In Search of Memory (2006)
Context: Birds in which spatial memory is particularly important—those that store food at a large number of sites, for example—have larger hippocampuses than other birds.... London taxi drivers have a larger hippocampus than others the same age.... the size of their hippocampus continues to increase with time on the job.

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American neuropsychiatrist 1929

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