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All the info our brain needs for language nearly fits on a floppy disc

March 27, 2019

Frank Mollica

From New Scientist: As you learn your first language, your brain stores about 1.5 megabytes of information just a little over the amount that would fill a floppy disc (that is what the picture for the save icon represents, if you are too young to remember them).

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