Timescale of human action
Timescale of human action by Allen Newell.1
| Scale (sec) | Time units | System | World (theory) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 10^7 | Months | Social band | |
| 10^6 | Weeks | ||
| 10^5 | Days | ||
| 10^4 | Hours | Task | Rational band |
| 10^3 | 10 min | Task | |
| 10^2 | Minutes | Task | |
| 10^1 | 10 sec | Unit task | Cognitive band |
| 10^0 | 1 sec | Operations | |
| 10^-1 | 100 ms | Deliberate act | |
| 10^-2 | 10 ms | Neural circuit | Biological band |
| 10^-3 | 1 ms | Neuron | |
| 10^-4 | 100 µs | Organelle |
Footnotes
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Chapter 3, Unified theories of cognition ↩