How fast do humans think? According to a new study, it’s slower than you might expect.
The peripheral nervous system — the network of nerves that deliver information between the brain and the body — takes in environmental information at over a billion bits per second, a speed comparable to a lightning-fast internet connection. But people think and process that information at just 10 bits per second, researchers report in the study.
This vast gulf hints at major unexplored questions in neuroscience and human cognition.
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