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Human thought crawls at 10 bits per second, Caltech study finds (www.techspot.com)

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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

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

This is timely as I'm actually new to drumming and teaching myself some basic polyrhythms right now. I'm definitely not capable of actively counting both rhythms at the same time. I'll count one, play it until I'm not really thinking about it anymore, then play the other one on top of it. After awhile, my arms and legs will just go, my brain isn't actually counting the rhythms individually but it hears the combined rhythm, basically I just memorize until the point that the polyrhythm syncs up and repeats. I didn't use them, but there's also a lot of common "phases" for learning these basic polyrhythms, like "pass the bread and butter" for 3 and 4, again just a tool to let the mind think of one funky rhythm rather than two basic rhythms played at once. Technically, they're the same rhythm, but the first is easier to conceptualize