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Can GPS Help Your Brain Get Lost? - Idea of the Day Blog - NYTimes.com
“The brains of London cabbies have outsized rear hippocampuses, because they are required to painstakingly learn the byzantine lanes and byways of the Old World city. Not true for most of us — and especially not in the age of the GPS, writes Alex Hutchinson in the Canadian magazine The Walrus.”
While having an ever changing, living map of a place in your head would absolutely lead to increased brain function, if driving and finding your way around town is your only (or sole) source of neurological stimulation, it’s probably time for a (mental) life change.