Wednesday, April 11, 2012

Practice Makes Perfect

Did you know that information stored in the activity patterns of cerebral cortex neurons is discarded at the surprisingly high rate of one bit per active neuron per second? Researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization were able to calculate, for the first time, how quickly an activity pattern is forgotten. No wonder "practice makes perfect," and learning requires repetition.

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