Human Memory Capacity is Ten Times More Than Previously Thought
By PsyBlog, March 10, 2016
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A human brain could hold as much information as the entire internet, a new study finds.
Human memory capacity is in the petabyte range, researchers at the Salk Institute have now found.
This is ten times larger than was previously thought.
Professor Terry Sejnowski, the study’s first author, said:
“This is a real bombshell in the field of neuroscience.
We discovered the key to unlocking the design principle for how hippocampal neurons function with low energy but high computation power.
Our new measurements of the brain’s memory capacity increase conservative estimates by a factor of 10 to at least a petabyte, in the same ballpark as the World Wide Web.”
