On our recent tour of Israel, we were having dinner with a couple on our tour at the amazing Kibbutz Hagoshrim. The lady herself said she volunteered and worked at a Kibbutz and talked a fair bit about her experience. Somehow the conversation turned to the husband who said he is a London Black Cab driver and asked if I have heard of Knowledge. It did not take long for him to work out that I am a doctor and he told me he had to go for tests at the Institute of ........
"Queen Square" I jumped in as usual.
"Yeah".
It is interesting that looking back on the research by Eleanor Maguire it is clear that out of 79 participants, only 39 pass the Knowledge test and they are the ones that showed the Hippocampi changes.
So here we have it, a Jewish London Taxi driver who was one of MacGuire's Guinea Pig passing the Knowledge test.
Did he have an advantage from his Bar Mitzvah ? I am pretty sure!
What a nice anecdote to our Israel Tour.
Links: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3268356/
https://www.simplypsychology.org/brain-plasticity.html
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC18253/
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