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The brain is truly a marvel. A seemingly endless library, whose shelves house our most precious memories as well as our lifetime’s knowledge. But is there a point where it reaches capacity? In other words, can the brain be “full”?
The answer is a resounding no, because, well, brains are more sophisticated than that. A study published in Nature Neuroscience earlier this year shows that instead of just crowding in, old information is sometimes pushed out of the brain for new memories to form.
Previous behavioural studies [PDF] have shown that learning new information can lead to forgetting. But in this study, researchers used new neuroimaging techniques to demonstrate for the first time how this effect occurs in the brain.
http://theconversation.com/health-check-can-your-brain-be-full-40844
Original Submission
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @02:55PM
It's very handy to simply blame the brain. However many brain theories are easily debunked in spite of all the appearances of it being the end all answer. I've verified early memories, for example, with my parents who could not understand how I knew all those full details. How my mom sitting on the beach reading while I, five years old, am lying unconscious on the bottom of the sea, yet she "heard" me tell her to come and pick up my body. Whereupon she went straight to where it was, and sea waters are not known for being clear.
I've conducted tests with people who were able to recite things spoken to them in the womb. For example, I helped a woman loose her severe stutter by having her recall incidents of pain and words spoken around the mother during those moments of pain. Yes, she was in the womb. Which is by many beliefs impossible. Yet nothing handled her stuttering until she recalled those words spoken during moments of pain.
That is apparently an undesired reality based on the emotions it stirs, indicating some high degree of something scaring some so much they cannot allow for it to be so. Excuses like "projecting" comes out as the why, which is completely inapplicable by actual evidence.
There is little doubt that the brain plays a big role in our lives but...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @03:04PM
What were the words? Shouldn't people avoid saying them around anyone pregnant?
(Score: 1) by deathlyslow on Thursday June 04 2015, @07:47PM
Are you also chiropractor by any chance?