Salk Institute Shows Brain Is Capable of 10 Times More Memory Storage Than Previously Thought (VIDEO)
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Salk scientists computationally reconstructed brain tissue in the hippocampus to study the sizes of connections (synapses). The larger the synapse, the more likely the neuron will send a signal to a neighboring neuron. The team found that, rather than just a few sizes of synapses, there are actually 26 discrete sizes that can change over a span of a few minutes, meaning that the brain has a far great capacity for storing information.
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