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How Does the Brain Retain Information?
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“The manner by which humans retain and retrieve information is an area widely explored and as of yet not completely understood. The human brain consists of about one billion neurons. Each neuron forms about 1,000 connections to other neurons, amounting to more than a trillion connections. This amounts to quite a large storage capacity. Here we examine how the brain retains all this information.”
Source: Baddeley, A.D. “Working Memory”, McGill University “Collective Memory”, Don H. Hockenbury “Psychology”, Helium.com, USC News, USA Today, Scientific American, IHMC
See also:
☞ The Human Hard Drive: Antonio Damasio and Ottavio Arancio on How We Make (And Lose) Memories
☞ Greg Miller on How Our Brains Make Memories
☞ Memory tag on Lapidarium notes
