AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: –Maguire used a snapshot study method, Blakemore + Cooper carried out longitudinal study.-Blakemore + Cooper studied visual neurons, Maguire investigated hippocampus.

Detailed explanation-2: -In her earliest studies, Maguire discovered that London taxi drivers had more gray matter in their posterior hippocampi than people who were similar in age, education and intelligence, but who did not drive taxis. In other words, taxi drivers had plumper memory centers than their peers.

Detailed explanation-3: -Maguire et al. set out to discover whether morphological (changes in form and shape) changes could be detected in the healthy human brain associated with extensive experience of spatial navigation. Their prediction was that the hippocampus would be the most likely brain region to show changes.

Detailed explanation-4: -Maguire’s research was able to show that brain plasticity does not only apply to animals such as cats but to humans as well. Maguire showed that excessive use of navigational skills led the brain to adjust and for grey matter in the posterior hippocampi to develop and accommodate this demand.