Maguire,Woollett,& Spiers conducted an fMRI study of the role of the hippocampus in spatial memory.The study showed that years of experience driving a taxi in London was _____ correlated with the size of posterior portions of the hypothalamus and _____ correlated with the size of anterior portions of the hypothalamus.
A) positively;negatively
B) positively;positively
C) negatively;negatively
D) negatively;positively

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The study found that taxi drivers with more experience had larger posterior hippocampi and smaller anterior hippocampi, indicating a positive correlation with the posterior and a negative correlation with the anterior.

Maguire,Woollett,& Spiers Conducted an FMRI Study of the Role of the Hippocampus