Salk researchers and collaborators have achieved critical insight into the size of neural connections, putting the memory capacity of the brain far higher than common estimates. 10 times more precisely.
Terry Sejnowski, Salk professor and co-senior author of the paper calls this discovery "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."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-memory-capacity-brain-previously-thought.html
Terry Sejnowski, Salk professor and co-senior author of the paper calls this discovery "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."
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2016-01-memory-capacity-brain-previously-thought.html