Thanks to @[email protected] for the links!
Here’s a link to Caltech’s press release: https://www.caltech.edu/about/news/thinking-slowly-the-paradoxical-slowness-of-human-behavior
Here’s a link to the actual paper (paywall): https://www.cell.com/neuron/abstract/S0896-6273(24)00808-0
Here’s a link to a preprint: https://arxiv.org/abs/2408.10234
i can agree at some extent why it could be at 10bits/sec.
the brain is known to do some shortcuts when parsing/speed reading but slows down when we try to extract details from written works. it is also more tiring to scrutinize details than to just read articles.
i was surprised that they got the speed measured.
The Caltech release says they derived it from “a vast amount of scientific literature” including studies of how people read and write. I think the key is going to be how they derived that number from existing studies.