Who Makes Decisions Twice as Fast as Humans?

American crow, Quebec City, Canada (photo from Wikimedia Commons) 2 November 2026 “Should I do this? Or that?” How long will it take for this human to decide? Human tries to decide (image from Wikimedia) In case you haven’t guessed who can decide twice as fast as we do, a recent study in Science: Ultrarapid decision-making in an avian brain used the same decision reaction-time test on crows that has been used on humans and monkeys for 20-30 years. Here’s how each of us scored: Crows respond in 216-254 milliseconds (average= 235) Monkeys in 410-600 milliseconds (average= 505) Humans in 450-820 milliseconds (average= 635). The video below shows what the test looked like and mentions “better than monkeys” but we know the stats for humans are a bit worse than monkeys. video embedded from @EngineSimLab on YouTube Bird brains are wired differently than mammals’ yet the tests confirmed that crows’ decision making neurons fire just like ours. Scientists were also able to see the steps in the…