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Published online 14 March 2000 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news000316-6
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London taxi drivers can get from Buckingham Palace to Big Ben in five minutes and, David Adam discovers, their brains change shape to prove it.
The brains of London taxi drivers change shape as they learn the back streets and one-way systems of the city, new research suggests. Parts of the brain associated with navigation are bigger in taxi drivers than in other people.
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