Sentences with phrase «human brain store»

This might help answer a question that has long intrigued scientists: How can the human brain store a virtually unlimited number of long - term memories, yet remain severely limited in the information we can hold in our conscious minds at once?

A first impression sets the stage for how people view you in the future, and there's nothing you can do to change that: This is a direct byproduct of the way the human brain stores information.

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Berne's second major concept is that of ego - states; he says that our behavior patterns, with their associated feelings, are «a limited repertoire... which are psychological realities... [the products of] the human brain... are organized and stored in the form of ego - states.»

Artificial neural networks, computer programs that mimic the human brain, are great at learning patterns and sequences, but so far they've been limited in their ability to solve complex reasoning problems that require storing and manipulating lots of data.

6 — 9 The human brain can store many times the amount of information acquirable in a lifetime.

Supercomputers can store more information than the human brain and can calculate a single equation faster, but even the biggest, fastest supercomputers in the world can not match the overall processing power of the brain.

Illustrations showing the basic operation of NIST's artificial synapse, which could connect processors and store memories in future neuromorphic computers operating like the human brain.

Bees don't have the brain structure, called the hippocampus, thought to store the spatial memories underlying mental maps in humans.

BRANCHING OUT In 1966, researchers thought that the branching ends of nerve cells (mouse neurons shown) might store memories in the human brain.

The human brain is build in such a way, that only necessary information is stored permanently — the rest is forgotten over time.

Well, human mating is a bit more complicated than it is for mice, and our perfumes have far less power over our brains (whatever the beliefs of pushy department - store perfumers).

If such a prion - induced chain reaction also occurs with the CPEB in the human brain, the scientists speculate, it could provide an unusually durable foundation for storing memories.

A human brain has something on the order of a million cubic millimeters, which means you'd need around two million terabytes to store a map of its wires.

We've got formaldehyde (a probable human carcinogen), mercury (a neurotoxin and the second most toxic substance known to man), aluminum (a known neurotoxin, 75 % of which is retained in a newborn and up to 40 % in an adult and is stored in the kidneys, spleen, liver, heart, brain, lymph nodes, and muscle), cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (a hazardous substance), MSG (a neurotoxin), 2 - Phenoxyethoanol (a hazardous toxin), and polysorbate 80 (a toxin associated with serious adverse effects including death), to name a few.

Human breast tissue and breast milk contain higher concentrations of iodine than the thyroid gland itself, which contains just 30 % of the body's iodine stores.18, 36,370 Breast tissue is rich in the same iodine - transporting proteins used by the thyroid gland to take up iodine from the blood.18, 38 The evolutionary reasons for this are clear: iodine is essential to the developing newborn brain, so the mother's body must have a direct means of supplying iodine to the nursing infant.18, 39

That's because the human brain is incredibly adept at storing material, but it's also very efficient at filtering out and rejecting information that doesn't seem relevant.

We explain how the human brain learns and stores information.

My recollection of the literature on human brain chemistry is that we store a lot more memories than we can access, so the mechanics of our memories are as good as an elephant's.

Long desired by researchers seeking new ways to treat, cure, and even prevent brain disorders, this picture will fill major gaps in our current knowledge and provide unprecedented opportunities for exploring exactly how the brain enables the human body to record, process, utilize, store, and retrieve vast quantities of information, all at the speed of thought.