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The brain is most interesting when it doesn’t work the way you expect it should. Psychology often confirms our intuitions about how our minds work, but it offers quite a few surprises as well. Although some psychology buff’s will have heard a few of these before, here’s a list of quirks in your brain you probably didn’t realize you had:

1. Your short-term memory has a max capacity of seven. - Humans have three forms of memory: sensory, long-term and short-term. Long-term memory is like hard-drive space, while short-term memory works like a very small RAM. This short-term memory can hold only about five to nine (average is seven) items at a time.
2. Chartreuse is the most visible color. - Your eyes have receptors for blue, green and red. Being in the middle, yellow-green triggers the most of these receptors to fire
3. Your subconscious is smarter than you are. - Or at least more powerful
4. You have two nervous systems. - One set controls excitation and the other controls inhibition
5. Your brain is awful at probability.
6. Your memory isn’t great either. - people are highly likely to misremember past events, it is incredibly easy to suggest a memory that never happened
7. You can perceive depth with one eye.
8. Long-term memory shuts down during sleep.
9. You have an instant playback feature.

Further explanation HERE