You can use up all the storage on your phone or max out your computer’s drive, but can you use up all the memory space in your brain?
Despite how you might feel before an exam or after a sleepless night before a work deadline, neuroscientists say that for a typical, healthy brain, memory capacity isn’t fixed or easily used up.
“There isn’t a meaningful limit to how much information the brain can store,” said Elizabeth Kensinger, a professor of psychology and neuroscience at Boston College. “Memories can be thought of as the data the brain uses to understand the current moment, to make predictions about the future, and to scaffold future learning.”
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