In a study that focused on taxi drivers in London, England, who must learn the names and locations of tens of thousands of streets in order to earn their licenses, the experienced cabbies exhibited superior memory for street information with the parts of their brains responsible for processing this learning being
A)enlarged.
B)lateralized.
C)more myelinated.
D)all of these.

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The study on London taxi drivers found that the hippocampus, a part of the brain involved in memory and spatial navigation, was enlarged in those who had spent years navigating the city's complex layout. This suggests that intensive use of spatial navigation skills can lead to physical changes in the brain.

In a Study That Focused on Taxi Drivers in London