How many words human brain can memorize daily?
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hundreds if you try, but normally the average person acquires 7-15 new words per day from age two onward\n\n"Several researchers have estimated comprehension vocabularies of young adults, with totals ranging from 40,000 to 100,000 for high school graduates (Nagy & Anderson, 1984; Nagy & Herman, 1987). The variation appears to be largely determined by the size of the dictionaries sampled, and to some extent by the way in which words are defined as being separate from each other and by the testing methods employed. (See Anglin, 1993, Miller, 1991, and Miller and Wakefield's commentary in Anglin, 1993, for review and critiques). The most common testing methods have been multiple choice tests much like those of TOEFL, but a few other procedures have been employed with comparable results. Here is one example of an estimation method. Moyer and Landauer (Landauer, 1986) sampled 1,000 words from Webster's Third International Dictionary (1964) and presented them to Stanford University undergraduates along with a list of 30 common categories. If a student classified a word correctly and rated it familiar it was counted as known. Landauer then went through the dictionary and guessed how many of the words could have been gotten right by knowing some other morphologically related word, and adjusted the results accordingly. The resulting estimate was around 100,000 words. This is at the high end of published estimates. A lower, frequently cited estimate is around 40,000 by the last year of high school (Nagy & Anderson, 1984). It appears, however, that all existing estimates are somewhat low because as many as 60% of the words found in a daily newspaper do not occur in dictionaries-mostly names, some quite common (Walker & Amsler, 1986)-and most have not adequately counted conventionalized multi-word idioms whose meanings cannot be derived from their components.\n\nBy simple division, knowing 40,000 to 100,000 words by 20 years of age means adding an average of 7-15 new words a day from age two onwards. The rate of acquisition during late elementary and high school years has been estimated at between 3,000 and 5,400 words per year (10-15 per day), with some years in late elementary school showing more rapid gains than the average (Nagy & Herman, 1987; Smith, 1941). In summary, it seems safe to assume that, by the usual measures, the total meaning recognition vocabularies of average fifth to eighth grade students increase by somewhere between ten and fifteen new words per day."
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using 10% seems to be on everyone tongue at the moment.\nactually our brain activity is around the 20% mark which may rise during periods of REM sleep or stress.\nWe use all parts of our brain but not all at the same time.\nThink of it in terms of a computer processor.\nHit Ctrl+Alt+Delete and click the performance tab of your task manager.\nDosent seem to be doing very much, but infact it is performing mind numbing calculations every second.\nSee the idea!
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are you serious?! go to www.pubmed.org, type in 'brain'... I'm pretty sure you'll get in excess of 100,000 articles...
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I would say ON AVERAGE about once per sentence. That being said, I would also imagine that based on that observation the actual number of times would be directly proportional to the amount of time the speaker spends talking. So the lower end would probably be somewhere around three or four hundred and the upper end around 100,000 like my idiotic brother.
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pet, pets, set, sets, deep, rent, rents, seed,seeds, red, trip, trips, die, dies, diet, diets, tie, ties, pen, pens, ten, pee, pees, tree, trees, pine, pines....\nthats it for me too many brain cells used on this
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this was an episode of married with children where the daughter forgot a fact cause she learned a new one and her brain maxed out, so she had to learn all the new facts to be in some contest,\nthen in the last second her dad goes, and daddy loves you, which replaced the fact from the start of the show, which was the winning question,\n\nultimately your question hinges on the word healthy, and based on my understanding of iq, there would be a limit to how much a person could learn in one day, one month, etc.\n\nso lets suppose we look at me, i test around 128, not bad, and i can read about 30 pages of a book a day before my head "freezes" and i can't read anymore without comprehension,\n\nsomeone with an iq of 115 might go 20 pages in the same time with good comprension,\n\nthis assumse we read at the same speed,  assume the 115 person can read faster, as fast as me lets say,\n\nand now we both get froozen at about the same time lets say,\n\nthe person with the higher iq would retain more,\n\nso, their are variables here,  with how healthy, could the person in the same amount of time read 50 pages,\n\nagain, in the same time, there is a limit based on iq of how much comprehension, before the aforementioned, freeze\n\nthe freeze i get on the train to work and on the way home reading my books,\n\nlately it was a book called misquoteing jesus, about how the new testement has changed from its oldest copies,  not much of the meaning has changed, same jesus, death and reserection,\n\njust no snake handling in the oldest copies,\n\nfeel free to email me if you'd like instead of talking back and forth in all these silly questions\n\ndarwin_spartacus@yahoo.com\n\nyour friend
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Although sometimes we think in words and sounds, research in cognitive science has shown that this modality is not as fundamental as it was considered in the past. The language is a product of the mind, not vice-versa. Thinking without formulating words is completely possible.
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Try using them in conversation, and don't try to remember too many new words at once.  Gaining contextual familiarity and not overwhelming yourself will help you remember new words.  Good luck!
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Most human memories are in the form of images or sounds.. (your visual/audio perceptions..) \nwhereas a computer can be anything from data, visuals, audio or a file...  the computer is more organised and has 99.99999% chance of remembering every minute detail.. \n\ncompared to the human mind which only remembers certain events which have affected the person in their life. \n\nOn the contrary though.. it was the human mind which has developed the computer memory to be SO accurate.. therefore i believe our brain also has the capability to fully remember everything that happens... (for example.. if someone has a photographic memory... they remember everything they see...)
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As frequently as possible. Your brain learns from repitition (not duration as much)
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#    The average human brain has about 100 billion nerve cells.\n\n# Nerve impulses to and from the brain travel as fast as 170 miles (274 km) per hour.\n\n# The thyroid cartilage is more commonly known as the adams apple.\n\n# The only jointless bone in your body is the hyoid bone in your throat\n\n# It's impossible to sneeze with your eyes open.\n\n# Your stomach needs to produce a new layer of mucus every two weeks or it would digest itself.\n\n# It takes the interaction of 72 different muscles to produce human speech.\n\n# The average life of a taste bud is 10 days.\n\n# The average cough comes out of your mouth at 60 miles (96.5 km) per hour.\n\n# Relative to size, the strongest muscle in the body is the tongue.\n\n# Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.\n\n# When you sneeze, all your bodily functions stop even your heart.\n\n# Babies are born without knee caps. They don't appear until the child reaches 2-6 years of age.\n\n# Children grow faster in the springtime.\n\n# It takes the stomach an hour to break down cow milk.\n\n# Women blink nearly twice as much as men.\n\n# Blondes have more hair than dark-haired people do.\n\n# There are 10 human body parts that are only 3 letters long (eye hip arm leg ear toe jaw rib lip gum).\n\n# If you go blind in one eye you only lose about one fifth of your vision but all your sense of depth.\n\n# The average human head weighs about 8 pounds.\n\n# Our eyes are always the same size from birth, but our nose and ears never stop growing.\n\n# In the average lifetime, a person will walk the equivalent of 5 times around the equator.\n\n# An average human scalp has 100,000 hairs.\n\n# The length of the finger dictates how fast the fingernail grows. Therefore, the nail on your middle finger grows the fastest, and on average, your toenails grow twice as slow as your fingernails.\n\n# The average human blinks their eyes 6,205,000 times each year.\n\n# The entire length of all the eyelashes shed by a human in their life is over 98 feet (30 m).\n\n# Your skull is made up of 29 different bones.\n\n# Your ears and nose continue to grow throughout your entire life.\n\n# After you die, your body starts to dry out creating the illusion that your hair and nails are still growing after death.\n\n# Hair is made from the same substance as fingernails.\n\n# The average surface of the human intestine is 656 square feet (200 m).\n\n# A healthy adult can draw in about 200 to 300 cubic inches (3.3 to 4.9 liters) of air at a single breath, but at rest only about 5% of this volume is used.\n\n# The surface of the human skin is 6.5 square feet (2m).\n\n15 million blood cells are destroyed in the human body every second.\n\n# The pancreas produces Insulin.\n\n# The most sensitive cluster of nerves is at the base of the spine.\n\n# The human body is comprised of 80% water.\n\n# The average human will shed 40 pounds of skin in a lifetime.\n\n# Every year about 98% of the atoms in your body are replaced.\n\n# The human heart creates enough pressure to squirt blood 30 feet (9 m).\n\n# You were born with 300 bones. When you get to be an adult, you have 206.\n\n# Human thighbones are stronger than concrete.\n\n# Every human spent about half an hour as a single cell.\n\n# There are 45 miles (72 km) of nerves in the skin of a human being.\n\n# The average human heart will beat 3,000 million times in its lifetime and pump 48 million gallons of blood.\n\n# Each square inch (2.5 cm) of human skin consists of 20 feet (6 m) of blood vessels.\n\n# During a 24-hour period, the average human will breathe 23,040 times.\n\n# Human blood travels 60,000 miles (96,540 km) per day on its journey through the body.
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Short answer: At least 81,520 words.\n\nMuch longer answer: To give a rather rough estimate, I used a wordlist that I have stored on my computer useful for allowing computer programs to recognize English words and determined it's size.  \n\nIt contained 81,520 words.  This is, almost certainly, a lower bound as there are very likely words which the wordlist does not contain yet are words anyway.  Also, it won't detect science-jargon words (for example deoxyribose from DNA would not be included).\n\nHowever, the 81,000 figure ought to cover most commonly-used words.
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I'm a neurosurgeon. I don't think anyone will be able to give a satisfactory answer to that question, in large part because we don't have any meaningful units of measurement. \n\nWe can't use "bytes" like in a computer. We can't determine how many "facts" someone knows. We might be able to work out reaction speeds etc. but we can't really pin down how many other things you are thinking of at the time and how that might influence it; we can't sort out how many people you know or what your total vocabulary is really; or how many slightly different scents you can recognize.\n\nMost of the time, we are unaware of the thousands of pieces of information we are constantly processing unconsciously, like air temperature, sounds around us, colour of text on screen, clock ticking, feel of socks on our feet, hair on our neck. We may notice out of the corner of our eye that our co-worker has gotten up; her unhurried walk and the smell of cappucino indicate that it's coffee break rather than an emergency evacuation, and our brain doesn't even consciously notify us of making the decision to stay at our desk.\n\nThe brain can process massive amounts of information very quickly - you are actually doing complicated calculus every time you catch a flying ball! - but we don't have a good way to quantify it.
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No ,our brain is always on the go on some level.\neven if it is repetitive thoughts it is on the go.\nLeft Brain \n Logical\nSequential\nRational\nAnalytical\nObjective\nLooks at parts  \nvs\nRight Brain \nRandom\nIntuitive\nHolistic\nSynthesizing\nSubjective\nLooks at wholes  \nGL
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biological computers, the memory would grow and learn similar to our brains
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No. The way we remember things is not just localized to one specific section in the brain, but it is a combination of neural networks essentially. Even if it was localized it would be very difficult to make someone specifically forget this without hurting other memories. Plus at present time drugs cannot be used to work locally in one specific section of the brain...even though nanotechnology will help us come closer to that goal.
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yes there must be a limit  for the brain functions and  storage!! but the Brain only uses 2% of its total capacity the links and the other organs such as ear nose eye cannot coup up with it !! that's why the eye needs rest after reading for a long time !! the brain usually stores the messages by replacing the unwanted with the new one which are used more!! and when you study in a certain topic in different places and different ways it gets easy for the brain to store the information in one place and link it to the other links!! so more you study the easy it'll be for you to study>>>