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Human Memory Capacity is Ten Times More Than Previously Thought

A human brain could hold as much information as the entire internet, a new study finds.

Human memory capacity is in the petabyte range, researchers at the Salk Institute have now found.

This is ten times larger than was previously thought.

Read entire article at PSYBLOG