Scientists identify a cell type in the brain that was previously ignored and it may explain why human memory has no known upper limit

The human brain contains roughly 86 billion neurons. That number appears in almost every popular account of memory and intelligence, and it tends to carry an implicit argument: that the scale of human cognition follows from the scale of this cell count. What is less often mentioned is that the brain contains a roughly comparable [...] The post Scientists identify a cell type in the brain that was previously ignored and it may explain why human memory has no known upper limit appeared first on Sp