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- Human brain’s memory capacity is 10 times more than previously thought http://news.bitofnews.com/human-brains-memory-capacity-10-times-previously-thought/ 2 comments
- What is the memory capacity of the human brain? Is there a physical limit to the amount of information it can store? http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=what-is-the-memory-capacity 47 comments science
- New Estimate Boosts the Human Brain's Memory Capacity 10-Fold: A new study has found the brain’s information storage capacity may be around a quadrillion bytes http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/new-estimate-boosts-the-human-brain-s-memory-capacity-10-fold/ 8 comments cogsci
- Biologists studying collectives of bacteria, or “biofilms,” have discovered that these so-called simple organisms feature a robust capacity for memory. The discovery reveals surprising parallels between low-level single-cell organisms and sophisticated neurons that process memory in the human brain. https://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/pressrelease/they-remember-communities-of-microbes-found-to-have-working-memory 5 comments science