The taller you are, the longer it takes for your brain to process things.
TRUE: It takes a split-second longer for sensory signals to reach the brains of tall people, which means that their “now” is actually a little less timely.
"If the brain wants to get events correct timewise, it may have only one choice: wait for the slowest information to arrive. To accomplish this, [the brain] must wait about a tenth of a second. In the early days of television broadcasting, engineers worried about the problem of keeping audio and video signals synchronized. Then they accidentally discovered that they had around a hundred milliseconds of slop, and as long as the signals arrived within this window, viewers’ brains would automatically resynchronize the signals."
"What does this have to do with tall people? Because it takes a few extra milliseconds for the far-away body signals of a tall person to reach their head, his or her brain must wait a little bit longer. The end result is that the moment of binding – that fleeting neural representation of now– is late."
"If the brain wants to get events correct timewise, it may have only one choice: wait for the slowest information to arrive. To accomplish this, [the brain] must wait about a tenth of a second. In the early days of television broadcasting, engineers worried about the problem of keeping audio and video signals synchronized. Then they accidentally discovered that they had around a hundred milliseconds of slop, and as long as the signals arrived within this window, viewers’ brains would automatically resynchronize the signals."
"What does this have to do with tall people? Because it takes a few extra milliseconds for the far-away body signals of a tall person to reach their head, his or her brain must wait a little bit longer. The end result is that the moment of binding – that fleeting neural representation of now– is late."
So, did you get the question right? Well either way, the brain speed difference is only a few extra milliseconds. Whether it's enough to account for a intellectual difference, I'll let you decide.
... Although, it could go to explain a lot about the NBA.
For more information, check out The Frontal Cortex.
... Although, it could go to explain a lot about the NBA.
For more information, check out The Frontal Cortex.