• Question: How fast does your brain send messages to your arms and legs to make them move?

    Asked by millie123 to Iroise on 10 Nov 2016.
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      Iroise Dumontheil answered on 10 Nov 2016:


      Information travels at different speeds in different types of neurons. It can vary from 0.5 meters/second to 120 meters/second. Transmission of information for a reflex movement can be around 300ms.

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