Does driving improve memory?

We are moving towards driverless cars. Recently, driverless electric bus hits the road in Spanish city of Málaga. In today’s magical article let’s explore something which will be left behind in the coming decades. It’s highly likely that your great great grandchild won’t have the privilege to drive the car 😀

A famous study of 2000 suggested that the hippocampi of cabbies were enlarged. By the way what’s hippocampus, feels like scratching biology textbooks. Hippocampus is elongated ridges in the brain, thought to be the centre of emotion, memory, and the autonomic nervous system.

It wasn’t clear whether the activity of driving helped the cabbies to enlarge the hippocampus or the people with enlarged hippocampus were more likely to learn to drive a car. A further study proved that indeed learning to drive enlarged the hippocampus.

While driving you need to focus on the traffic, listen to the horns or music, talk with the passenger next to you apart from handling the steering, gear and acceleration. Doesn’t it sound like a plethora of multitasking?

Driving involves spatial learning, you drive the car on space estimation, you rarely know the exact precise location.

If you haven’t yet learnt to drive, you still have the opportunity that your great great grandchild won’t have 😀

Until next time..

Cheerful Driving!