The researchers found that the average person can distinguish about 5 000 individuals. this means that the volume of our brain are not limitless.
Researchers from the University of York found that the average person can distinguish no more than 5 000 persons In the course of the experiment, the participants within the hour had to make a list of people whose faces they can remember, including even those whose names they forgot. Then they showed 1000 pictures of famous people, including actors and politicians, and asked to identify them. On average, the participants of the experiment recalled 362 familiar faces during this hour. In addition, during the test the volunteers were recognized on the screen 290 of celebrities.
Scientists took into account the fact that people in reality can recognize a lot more faces than he can remember during the test in one hour and so the total number of recognized entities and approximately 5 000 people. This does not mean that we limit the abilities of the human brain. There are people who are able to recognize not more than a thousand persons, and there are the only ones that recognize more than 10 000 persons. But the average is just the number 5,000.
The results of this experiment demonstrate the current limitations in the amount of information that is accumulated by the brain. Of course, through our lives sometimes take significantly more individuals, but most are erased forever from memoryas unimportant. In addition, people may forget the faces of even those people that meant to him in the past, including close relatives. (READ MORE)