Featured VideoThese findings stopped me in my tracks because those two jobs rely on the same thing as my own work: maps. I always assumed that spatial reasoning across map layers was purely professional. AdvertisementIn one landmark 2000 study, neuroscientists compared the brains of licensed London taxi drivers with those of people who did not drive cabs. AdvertisementWhere map specialists fit inCartographers, urban planners, and geospatial analysts spend their working days in sustained spatial reasoning. Does spatial reasoning through a screen engage the hippocampus the way moving through a real city does?