{"id":1864,"date":"2024-12-19T11:49:56","date_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:49:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1864"},"modified":"2024-12-19T11:49:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-19T10:49:56","slug":"on-the-limited-throughput-of-the-human-cognition-and-its-implications-e-g-in-engineering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1864","title":{"rendered":"On the limited throughput of the human cognition and its implications, e.g., in Engineering"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4>Jieyu Zheng1, and Markus Meister, <strong>The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits\/s?,<\/strong> Neuron (2024), DOI: <a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.neuron.2024.11.008\">10.1016\/j.neuron.2024.11.008<\/a>.<\/h4>\n<blockquote><p>This article is about the neural conundrum behind the slowness of human behavior. The information throughput of a human being is about 10 bits\/s. In comparison, our sensory systems gather data at 10 bits\/s. The stark contrast between these numbers remains unexplained and touches on fundamental aspects of brain function: what neural substrate sets this speed limit on the pace of our existence? Why does the brain need billions of neurons to process 10 bits\/s? Why can we only think about one thing at a time? The brain seems to operate in two distinct modes: the \u2018\u2018outer\u2019\u2019 brain handles fast high-dimensional sensory and motor signals, whereas the \u2018\u2018inner\u2019\u2019 brain processes the reduced few bits needed to control behavior. Plausible explanations exist for the large neuron numbers in the outer brain, but not for the inner brain, and we propose new research directions to remedy this.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jieyu Zheng1, and Markus Meister, The unbearable slowness of being: Why do we live at 10 bits\/s?, Neuron (2024), DOI: <span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span> <span class=\"more-link-wrap\"><a href=\"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/?p=1864\" class=\"more-link\"><span>Read More &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[502,381,391],"class_list":["post-1864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psycho-physiological-bases-of-engineering","tag-brain-computation","tag-cognitive-information","tag-prediction-in-cognition"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1864"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1865,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1864\/revisions\/1865"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1864"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1864"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/babel.isa.uma.es\/kipr\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1864"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}