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Can Your Brain Be ‘Full’?

posted by cmn32480 on Thursday June 04 2015, @01:01PM   Printer-friendly
from the bud-bundy-was-right dept.

AnonTechie writes:

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

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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:35PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:35PM (#192145)

    (same poster)

    As far as dress I'm sure there are some trends that can be associated with weather. When it's hot outside you tend to dress differently than when it's cold.

  • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:43PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday June 04 2015, @04:43PM (#192149)

    When it's hot outside you tend to dress differently than when it's cold.

    Correlation is not causation though. You almost sound like you are proposing a modern day miasma theory. Instead the choice of clothing may be due to contagion. Once a threshold number of people are wearing winter clothes, an epidemic of wearing summer clothes will quickly spread if the community is exposed to even a single individual doing that.