[LINK] Brain region changes shape with learning the layout of London

General Intro:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16086233

Older research:

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/Maguire2006.pdf

Possible implications for WBE (Is it possible to get short term function correct without having the ability to do long term structural changes?)

Also possible implications for learning lots of information, cabbies with "the Knowledge" had worse visual information recall.

I haven't gone through it all myself yet.

General Intro:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-16086233

Older research:

http://www.fil.ion.ucl.ac.uk/Maguire/Maguire2006.pdf

Abstract of latest research

Possible implications for WBE (Is it possible to get short term function correct without having the ability to do long term structural changes?)

Also possible implications for learning lots of information, cabbies with "the Knowledge" had worse visual information recall.

I haven't gone through it all myself yet.

Downvoted for uninformative title (brain structure changes with any learning, unless one presupposes dualism) and a post which also didn't have any descriptions about the links.

There are various types of change that can occur on different levels:

Small scale changes (new dendritic spines, more neuro transmitter receptors)
New connections between cells
New brain cells or removal of old
Change of shape of a brain region. Brain regions are sometimes called brain structures, more so than neurons etc.

It was the last I was trying to communicate.

0dlthomas14y

I am not sure that is the case. My neuroscience is very rusty, but is there a distinction between structural changes and other changes? New neural connections versus changes in neurotransmitters or triggering thresholds seems a likely candidate.