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Brain's Cache Memory Found

Posted by CowboyNeal on from the forget-me-not dept.

Shipud writes "Electrical activity in a single section of the brain has been linked to very short-term working memory, as is reported at Nature. Very short-term working memory capacity is thought to be related to intelligence. In the same way that a larger cache speeds processing time, people with a greater capacity for holding images in their heads are expected to have better reasoning and problem-solving skills. The localization of this ability is a surprising finding, as until now it was believed that STWM was diffused throughout the cortex, rather than localized."

2 of 531 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Great by D-Cypell · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A new definition of employment...

    "Organisations trading their surplus cash for your surplus cache"

  2. (OT) Re:Great by dotgain · · Score: 0, Offtopic
    'rm' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

    For that matter, had you have been using any of MacOS X, Solaris, *BSD, it might have hit you; it's not Linux specific.

    And if you were running 'nix, and threw any old perl script* at your prompt wondering what it does I'd think you're a bloody idiot. You should be glad, if anything, it didn't try something specific to your environment.

    * by an AC, no less.
    disclaimer: I haven't tried to run nor untangle the perl script. It might not be malicious after all.