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I don't know about you but my visual systems are processing at a greater bandwidth than that. Plus I am pretty sure that my hearing system is coping well with the simultaneous audio output of an MP3 track. Plus I am supposedly doing some work - I think that 60 bits/sec is rather under estimating the total.

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FTA: "Martin uses his method to determine how much information the brain can process during lexical decision tasks. The answer? No more than about 60 bits per second." So, it's not 60 bits/sec of information processing, but 60 yes/no decisions per second. That's pretty fast.

And as each decision requires multiple inputs that would again rubbish the headline figure - total nonsense.

I think the 60 bits/sec figure is more analogous to encoding an mp3 than listening to one. Making distinct choices like you're probably doing with your work is the sort of processing that the article was referring to, not the "parsing" done by reading or listening to an mp3.

That's just picking one type of process running on what seems to be a massively parallel machine and saying that's the rate of the processor.

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