Congrats to @jieyusz.bsky.social and @mameister4.bsky.social on their Neuron paper unpacking an unresolved paradox in neuroscience. It's terrific to see it capture the public imagination, including Scientific American.
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-human-brain-operates-at-a-stunningly-slow-pace/
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https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0896627324008080%3Fshowall%3Dtrue
Paywall free:
https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
https://www.thetransmitter.org/computational-neuroscience/explaining-the-largest-unexplained-number-in-brain-science-qa-with-markus-meister-and-jieyu-zheng/
“Nature, it seems, has built a speed limit into our conscious thoughts, and no amount of neural engineering may be able to bypass it,” Zador says. “Why? We really don’t know, but it’s likely the result of our evolutionary history.”
Nicole Rust, a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania, who also was not involved in the research, says the new study could reshape how neuroscientists approach some of their work ...
Sensory input at 1 Gbit/s => functional/behavioral response at 10 bit/s
The knowledge gap is: why the processing takes so much time?