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The Paradoxical Slowness of Human Behavior
A new Caltech study quantifies the speed of human thought processes and finds that we think, remember, and process remarkably slowly.
However, our bodies' sensory systems gather data about our environments at a rate of a billion bits per second, which is 100 million times faster than our thought processes. This new study raises major new avenues of exploration for neuroscientists, in particular: Why can we only think one thing at a time while our sensory systems process thousands of inputs at once? The research was conducted in the laboratory of Markus Meister(PhD '87), the Anne P. and Benjamin F. Biaggini Professor of Biological Sciences, and it was led by graduate student Jieyu Zheng.
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