The hippocampus is indeed "more south than north"--its closer to the base of the brain within the temporal lobe.
   
  http://www.exn.ca/news/images/1997/04/04/19970404-Hippocampus.jpg
   
  DH+

charles scott <crscottblu@...> wrote:
  Derrick+


Sounds right to me. Maybe that accounts for the bump
on the right side of my pate? 8-) I've spent a
good part of my life in automobiles. 

By the way, where is my hippocampus? Sounds more
south than north. 8-)

Charles+

--- "Rev. Dr. Derrick Hassert"
wrote:

> "This is learned behaviour. Who needs it more than
> a New York Cabbie? Does it change our brains? I
> haven't a clue, but being spatially oriented is
> learned behaviour. People who have to know where
> they are geographically, learn it.
> 



> Charles+"
> 
> The study that I mentioned offhand previously was
> a real study--cab drivers show an enlargement in the
> hippocampus related to spatial navigation. This is
> due to their experience as cab drivers. My point
> being that all experience alters the brain in some
> way, either at the microscopic or the macroscopic
> level. If your brain didn't change with experience
> there would be no learning.
> 
> DH+ 
> 
> 
>

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