London and Tokyo taxi drivers are the apex… the map apex… the mapex (pronounced MAY-pex)?
“Take me to that hotel that’s in front of a pub, I think it’s called The Fox & Hounds… I think it’s between a park and a Tube station”, and the crazy bastard could figure out exactly where you meant, even though there are multiple pubs named The Fox & Hounds in London.
London and Tokyo taxi drivers are the apex… the map apex… the mapex (pronounced MAY-pex)?
“Take me to that hotel that’s in front of a pub, I think it’s called The Fox & Hounds… I think it’s between a park and a Tube station”, and the crazy bastard could figure out exactly where you meant, even though there are multiple pubs named The Fox & Hounds in London.
For those that are interested, I present the studies:
London taxi drivers: A review of neurocognitive studies and an exploration of how they build their cognitive map of London
Navigation-related structural change in the hippocampi of taxi drivers
Everyday taxi drivers: Do better navigators have larger hippocampi?