Cognition Quotes
If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!
Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined.
The moment you establish a line of communication between two points, you subtly change both. That is also true for the way the brain is affected by the mind.
Be careful not to appear obsessively intellectual. When intelligence fills up, it overflows a parody.
Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.
One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to let the harmful biases dictate our behavior.
The human brain always concocts biases to aid in the construction of a coherent mental life, exclusively suitable for an individual’s personal needs.
I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.
The destructive effects of video games are not on boys' cognitive abilities or their reaction times, but on their motivation and their connectedness with the real world.
In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.
One either cares what others think about him, or cares what others think he thinks about them. If you want to find someone who doesn't care in the slightest what anyone thinks, try a lunatic asylum.
Unprovoked hostility is often but displaced self-defense: 'I must stop him before he stops me.' In many of such environments, nobody is really hateful so much as they are just fearful.
A popular myth is that learning is largely a matter of motivation. Increasingly, the key to effective learning in the information era is how you think, not how you feel.
You are what resides before, beyond and between what you think so do not be consumed by thought. It is only a fragment of your magic.
At one moment, his eyes sparkled in the light and in the next they were enshrouded in shadow. What connected those bands of light and dark? Could they indeed have been distinct entities?
without the mind the body is not capable of delivering anything beyond an average performance.
A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.
Cognition can happen in many different ways and combinations.
