Short-term memory plays a crucial role in how our consciousness operates. Several years ago a hypothesis has been formulated, according to which capacity of short-term memory depends in a special way on two cycles of brain electric activity. Scientists from the Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology of the Polish Academy of Sciences in Warsaw succeeded in proving this experimentally for the first time. A human being can consciously process from five to nine pieces of information simultaneously. During processing these pieces of information remain in the short-term memory...
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