{"id":202229,"date":"2024-12-23T13:05:07","date_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:05:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-quantified-the-speed-of-human-thought-and-its-a-big-surprise"},"modified":"2024-12-23T13:05:07","modified_gmt":"2024-12-23T19:05:07","slug":"scientists-quantified-the-speed-of-human-thought-and-its-a-big-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/scientists-quantified-the-speed-of-human-thought-and-its-a-big-surprise","title":{"rendered":"Scientists Quantified The Speed of Human Thought, And It\u2019s a Big Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/scientists-quantified-the-speed-of-human-thought-and-its-a-big-surprise2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The speed of the human brain\u2019s ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to scientists, we\u2019re not as mentally quick as we might like to think.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, research suggests our brains process information at a speed of just 10 bits per second. But how is this possible, in comparison to the trillions of operations computers can perform every second?<\/p>\n<p>Research suggests this is the result of how we internally process thoughts in single file, making for a slow, congested queue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The speed of the human brain\u2019s ability to process information has been investigated in a new study, and according to scientists, we\u2019re not as mentally quick as we might like to think. In fact, research suggests our brains process information at a speed of just 10 bits per second. But how is this possible, in [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":511,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/511"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}