Crazy Taxi Helps Brain Cell Research

Thanks to Betterhumans.com for their story regarding research using videogames to explore brain cells and navigation. According to the piece: "Understanding of how brain cells interact to help people navigate has been furthered by an experiment using epileptic patients who drove a virtual taxi while attached to an EEG monitor." While watching players of the game, which was presumably Crazy Taxi: "The researchers identified three distinct brain cells that helped the players navigate: Place cells [determining location], view cells [what was being seen in the environmen], and goal cells [involved in finding a location, person or thing]."

Comments

They're NOT using Crazy Taxi!

[Man In Black]

I'm watching Daily Planet on Discovery channel right now, and they're showing this same story, along with some video of the program they're using... and it's definitely NOT Crazy Taxi! It's some unique (and rather crummy looking) 3D program that moves at one speed (and looks like it has bad handling too) and doesn't even show a car at all. All it shows is static buildings, ground and sky with nothing to interact with. Might as well be a Doom level.

I don't know who assumed that they were using Crazy Taxi, but they were wrong.