The brain works at more than 10 bits per second

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Nature neuroscience Pub Date : 2025-06-13 DOI:10.1038/s41593-025-01997-0

Britton A. Sauerbrei, J. Andrew Pruszynski

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Abstract

A recent article makes a claim with far-reaching implications for neuroscience, technology, and society: that the human brain is subject to an information processing ‘speed limit’ of 10 bits per second. Although this speed limit appears to hold for high-level cognitive functions, we argue that unconscious processing for real-time control of movement, which occupies a majority of neurons in the central nervous system and accounts for most of the information throughput of humans, substantially exceeds this limit.

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大脑的工作速度超过每秒10比特

最近的一篇文章提出了一个对神经科学、技术和社会具有深远影响的主张：人类大脑受到每秒10比特的信息处理“速度限制”。尽管这一速度限制似乎适用于高级认知功能，但我们认为，占据中枢神经系统大部分神经元并占人类大部分信息吞吐量的运动实时控制的无意识处理实质上超过了这一限制。

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Nature neuroscience 医学-神经科学

CiteScore

38.60

自引率

1.20%

发文量

212

审稿时长

1 months

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