The human brain is an immensely complex organ.
Scientists have discovered many fascinating facts about it.
They know perhaps .01% of what there is to know about the brain.
But today’s FamilyFirst pick has put nine amazing facts together about the gelatinous collection of nerve cells.
The site is called NIne Brain Habits You Didn’t Realize You Had.
Here’s one of the fascinating facts:
Humans have basically three forms of memory: Sensory, Long-term and Short-term. Long-term memory is just like hard-drive space. Similarly, Short-term memory functions like a very small RAM. This Short-term memory is capable to hold only about five to nine (seven is an average) items at a time. Retrieving information longer than this will need you to either pack it together into seven units or store it in Long-term memory. Have you observed that the most phone numbers have only seven digits?
So don’t despair the next time you walk into aroom and forget why you went there. You just didn’t have room in your RAM for that tenth item!
http://www.mindcafe.org/9-brain-habits-you-did-not-realize-you-had
