these folks initially have a larger hippocampus than people
not associated with superior navigation, programming and race car driving skills.
Interesting. I'd have never considered any kind of correlation between programming and race car driving skills, and still can't piece them together. Race car driving skills largely involves interacting with the car through all of your senses to determine what it's doing and what it needs you to do, and making habits and instinct out of actions that are counter-intuitive until you have them explained properly and put them into practice. Like stepping on the gas when the car rotates too much (skid) because we tend not to want to accelerate when something's wrong, even when it's the correct thing to do.
I can't imagine any parallels to programming aside from having to put your mind into a completely different operating mode from normal. In the case of programming, thinking more like a machine. In the case of driving, communicating with a machine in the many ways it communicates with you.
Beyond that, I can't think of anything.
