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🗓️ 6 November 2015
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0:00.0 | Understanding the human body is a team effort. That's where the Yachtel group comes in. |
0:05.8 | Researchers at Yachtolt have been delving into the secrets of probiotics for 90 years. |
0:11.0 | Yacold also partners with nature portfolio to advance gut microbiome science through the global grants for gut health, an investigator-led research program. |
0:19.6 | To learn more about Yachtolt, visit yawcult.co.com.j. |
0:23.9 | That's y-A-K-U-L-T dot-C-O-J-P. |
0:28.4 | When it comes to a guide for your gut, count on Yacult. |
0:33.7 | This is Scientific Americans' 60-second science. |
0:37.2 | I'm Erica Barris. Got a minute? From the backseat of a cab, |
0:43.2 | the moves a driver makes may at time seem, let's say, daring. In fact, cabies may actually be better, |
0:50.8 | more agile drivers than the rest of us, because they know their streets so well. |
0:56.0 | Previous research found that the hippocampus in the brain of a typical cap driver is enlarged. |
1:01.0 | That's the part of the brain used in navigation. |
1:03.9 | But now a study confirms that learning detailed navigation information does indeed cause that |
1:09.7 | part of the brain to grow. |
1:11.5 | The findings are in the journal, Neuroimage. |
1:14.7 | Researchers had young adults who were not regular gamers play a driving simulation game. |
1:19.9 | Some practice maneuvering the same route 20 times, while other players were confronted |
1:24.3 | with 20 different routes. |
1:26.4 | The participants' brains were scanned before they |
1:28.6 | performed the simulated driving and again after. Researchers found that subjects who kept repeating |
1:34.3 | the same route increased their speed more than those driving multiple routes. The single route |
1:39.7 | drivers were also much better able to put in order a sequence of random pictures taken along the way |
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