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How much can your brain hold?

Brains On! Science podcast for kids

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How Much Can Your Brain Hold?

A team of scientists in California actually figured out how much you can fit in your brain. Humans have about 100 billion neurons and remember those spaces between neurons we talked about. On average each one of those can hold about five bits of information. A bit is a measurement for the smallest amount of information that can be stored on a computer. Kind of like how a millimeter measures a tiny distance.

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