Received: by alpheratz.cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk id NAA17956 (8.6.9/5.3[ref pg@gmsl.co.uk] for cpm.aca.mmu.ac.uk from fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk); Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:26:41 +0100 Message-ID: <2D1C159B783DD211808A006008062D31017458D9@inchna.stir.ac.uk> From: Vincent Campbell <v.p.campbell@stir.ac.uk> To: "'memetics@mmu.ac.uk'" <memetics@mmu.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Cons and Facades - more on truth Date: Wed, 21 Jun 2000 13:24:58 +0100 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2650.21) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: fmb-majordomo@mmu.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Reply-To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
Of course taxi drivers are using waypoint mapping when learning the
knowledge- that's precisely the kind of knowledge they are required to
learn.
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> From: Chris Lofting
> Reply To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Sent: Tuesday, June 20, 2000 3:40 pm
> To: memetics@mmu.ac.uk
> Subject: RE: Cons and Facades - more on truth
>
> BTW -- in regard to my comments on waypoint mapping, I forgot to mention
> the
> more relative work done on London taxi drivers and "The Knowledge" where a
> supposedly significant difference was found in their hippocampus regions
> when compared to 'normals'. When you ask a taxi driver how he learns "The
> Knowledge" you find that he uses waypoint mapping "Up road X to the Y pub.
> turn left and go on the the X underground station .. etc etc....".. in
> other
> words we see the same mechanisms is these drivers as we see in rats
> running
> a maze... (there was a TV program on gaining the Knowledge and that too
> showed these sorts of processes going on, there is no memorising of a map
> of
> London but more a linking of points into relationships; local distinctions
> making a global map. The emphasis was on the 'correct' path given a
> context
> e.g. how to get from victoria station to heathrow airport at 5:00 on a
> Good
> Friday).
>
> best,
>
> Chris.
>
>
>
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