But the rate that we gather sensory data is 100 million times faster than our thought processes, making our brains champions ...

Humans process thoughts at just 10 bits per second, according to a recent paper published by Caltech researchers. In contrast ...

Scientists have finally quantified the brain’s speed limit in processing human thought, an advance that reveals why we are ...

A new study is “a bit of a counterweight to the endless hyperbole about how incredibly complex and powerful the human brain ...

So, the research paper seems to have sparked a lot of questions, but Meister and Zheng already have some ideas about the leisurely pace of human thought. "Our ancestors have chosen an ecological ...

A duo of researchers at Caltech have attempted to quantify the speed of human thought, putting it at a somewhat perplexing 10 bits of information per second. To put that into perspective ...

Furthermore, the study highlights a peculiar constraint of human cognition: our ability to process only one thought at a time, rather than multiple thoughts in parallel like our sensory systems.

If humans' brains evolved from these simple systems to follow paths, it would make sense that humans can only follow one "path" of thought at a time. "Human thinking can be seen as a form of ...

The speed of human thought is dwarfed by the flood of information that assaults our senses. Meister and Zheng estimated that the millions of photoreceptor cells in a single eye can transmit 1.6 ...