How does the human brain store its ever-increasing accumulation of  information? Is there a limit to the faculty of the human brain, or can the learning process be increased indefinitely? The senses, the nervous system, and the brain are the biological apparatus whose components interact to achieve learning. This program shows what happens in the nerve cells during the act of learning and storing information. (28 minutes)

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