{"id":202845,"date":"2024-12-31T06:25:14","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T12:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/exact-speed-of-human-thought-measured-by-scientists-might-shock-you"},"modified":"2025-01-07T01:20:15","modified_gmt":"2025-01-07T07:20:15","slug":"exact-speed-of-human-thought-measured-by-scientists-might-shock-you","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/12\/exact-speed-of-human-thought-measured-by-scientists-might-shock-you","title":{"rendered":"Exact speed of human thought measured by scientists might shock you"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/exact-speed-of-human-thought-measured-by-scientists-might-shock-you2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Have you ever wondered how fast our brains work? Well, scientists have recently quantified the brain\u2019s speed limit. They revealed that from sensory organs, the brain processes signals at only about 10 bits per second.<\/p>\n<p>This speed is millions of times slower than the input rate, as the human body\u2019s sensory systems gather data about the surrounding environment at a rate of a billion bits per second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Have you ever wondered how fast our brains work? Well, scientists have recently quantified the brain\u2019s speed limit. They revealed that from sensory organs, the brain processes signals at only about 10 bits per second. This speed is millions of times slower than the input rate, as the human body\u2019s sensory systems gather data about [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,418,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-202845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-internet","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202845","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=202845"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202845\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":203218,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/202845\/revisions\/203218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=202845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=202845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=202845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}