Neuropsych tweeps: That famous study showing London cabbies have larger hippocampi is held up as an example of massive brain plasticity on a macro scale - has it held up?
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I always assumed it was a selection effect (bigger hippocampi folks pass the Knowledge test to become cabbies), rather than a causal 'plasticity' effect.
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Yeah, I don't know. The argument seems to be that it is due to plasticity. (That is certainly how it is widely interpreted)
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I thought the authors then replicated the findings using a before after design (woolett 2011 current biology) the other caveats of what this actually is still stand
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The only social science findings that will survive the test of time are those currently most politically incorrect.
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No, authors found that those who passed the test and then left the job v. quickly afterwards did not show same hippocampal asymmetry as those who stayed in the job for a long time
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Sadly, a lot of what was taught to me in social psychology courses has held no water upon independent research or been trivially true. The opposite is true for evo psych
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