Date:25/01/16
Forget what you thought you knew about human memory, because a new study suggests that our brain’s capacity is 10 times larger than previously believed.
"This is a real bombshell in the field of neuroscience," Salk Institute for Biological Studies researcher Terry Sejnowski said.
"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."
That’s 1,000 terabytes. This finding suggests there may be as many as 26 categories of synapses, rather than just a few, as was previously believed.
This extra complexity of connections between neurons is what could result in a boost to the brain’s potential memory capacity. Researchers can use specifically this study for further work in the field of computers, creating advanced methods deep learning and neural networks.
Our brain can store 1 petabyte of data
Forget what you thought you knew about human memory, because a new study suggests that our brain’s capacity is 10 times larger than previously believed."This is a real bombshell in the field of neuroscience," Salk Institute for Biological Studies researcher Terry Sejnowski said.
"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."
That’s 1,000 terabytes. This finding suggests there may be as many as 26 categories of synapses, rather than just a few, as was previously believed.
This extra complexity of connections between neurons is what could result in a boost to the brain’s potential memory capacity. Researchers can use specifically this study for further work in the field of computers, creating advanced methods deep learning and neural networks.
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