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Do L.A. Cabbies Have Bigger Than Usual Brains?

Aired March 16, 2000 - 9:57 a.m. ET

THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.

DARYN KAGAN, CNN ANCHOR: You might have heard about this rather unusual study that came out this week. It says it links London cab drivers with people who have bigger than usual brains.

ANDRIA HALL, CNN ANCHOR: I just want to know who paid for that study.

KAGAN: Yes.

HALL: But the question is, what about cabbies in Los Angeles?

Bill Smith from our affiliate KTLA takes a very unofficial look.

(BEGIN VIDEOTAPE)

BILL SMITH, KTLA-TV REPORTER (voice-over): Yes, driving a taxi cab makes your brain grow bigger, so says the prestigious London University College, to which our L.A. cabbies respond:

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't know? But it feels like maybe we're getting a little bit more smarter.

SMITH: Scientists say it is learning the best routes, imprinting the map of the city directly onto your brain that makes the hippocamus region of the cabby's brain actually get bigger.

(on camera): Does your brain feel larger because you have to do all this driving?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, it does.

SMITH: You can tell? You can feel that brain getting bigger?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Yes, I feel it.

SMITH: So, how believable is this study? Well, news people do a lot of driving. I don't feel any smarter, and some cabbies say they don't either.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

SMITH: It doesn't? Let me see. Feels pretty big to me.

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: I don't think so. SMITH: The study say, as you record the routes in your mind, the brain gets bigger. Do you feel it?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: No.

SMITH (voice-over): Well, sounds like our L.A. cabbies are already smart enough to be skeptical. But if it is true, it's big news, meaning all of our brains can grow if we work hard at what we do.

(on camera): Does your brain feel any larger because you have to drive all these different routes?

UNIDENTIFIED MALE: yes.

(END VIDEOTAPE)

ANDRIA: Not sure.

OK, that report was from Bill Smith

That report from Bill Smith from CNN affiliate KTLA.

KAGAN: We'll have to take their word for it.

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