I always had this intuition at the back of my mind that crude information cannot be stored efficiently in our brains, just like direct food cannot be digested.

I always had this intuition at the back of my mind that crude information cannot be stored efficiently in our brains, just like direct food cannot be digested. We need to chew it and break it down to digest. Same with information. It needs to be broken down into smaller simple parts to be understood. I think this study would extend in the future and show that now only working memory but most of what we call understanding and conceptual memory of things are this way: made simple to be digested and stored.