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Published online 15 April 2004 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news040412-3
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Memory bottleneck limits intelligence
Single spot in brain determines size of visual scratch pad.
The number of things you can hold in your mind at once has been traced to one penny-sized part of the brain.
The finding surprises researchers who assumed this aspect of our intelligence would be distributed over many parts of the brain.
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