Draw! The neuroscience behind Hollywood shoot-outs

(NewScientist) Niels Bohr once had a theory on why the good guy always won shoot-outs in Hollywood westerns. It was simple: the bad guy always drew first. That left the good guy to react unthinkingly – and therefore faster. When Bohr tested his hypothesis with toy pistols and colleagues who drew first, he always won.
Andrew Welchman of the University of Birmingham, UK, has now taken this a step further. Bohr may have won a Nobel prize for his work on quantum mechanics, but it turns out the answer to this puzzle is more complicated than he thought. Continued

Image: "The sharp crack of the two revolvers rang out as one sound." W. T. Smedley. Published in: "A Whirlwind Wooing" by Cyrus Townsend Brady, Harper's magazine, 1901. (Library of Congress)