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Thinking slowly: The paradoxical slowness of human behavior, « Why can we only think one thing at a time while our sensory systems process thousands of inputs at once? »


A new Caltech study quantifies the speed of human thought processes and finds that we think, remember, and process remarkably slowly.

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