Quotes About Neuroscience

La experiencia humana, en todas sus cualidades, pertenece de base a la misma conciencia que cualquier experiencia cualitativa, en todos y cada uno de los seres sensitivos. Se requiere de un cerebro humano para activar la experiencia humana, porque solamente en los niveles sintergicos que el campo neuronal humano puede adquirir, la conciencia adquiere la complejidad suficiente

En un experimento publicado en la década de los 80´s, el autor de esta obra y E. Roy Jonh del Brain Research Laboratory de la ciudad de Nueva York, demostramos que las expectativas que un sujeto tiene acerca de la realidad que percibe determinan cambios en su actividad cerebral acordes con las expectativas (las descripciones y estructuras conceptuales que posee) y no con la Realidad.

En el laboratorio hemos demostrado (Grinberg-Zylberbaum y J. Ramos, 1987) (ver siguiente capítulo) que cuando dos sujetos se comunican, el que posee mayor correlación interhemisférica (es decir, el más sintérgico y unificado) atrae hacia su nivel de coherencia al que posee menos correlación interhemisférica. Esta evidencia experimental sustenta y apoya las consideraciones antes expuestas.

La más elevada función de liderazgo consiste en transformar la repulsión entrópica de la lattice en atracción antientrópica del atractor extraño del futuro ideal del hipercampo. Un cerebro en un estado de elevada correlación interhemisférica incrementa la coherencia del hipercampo y de la lattice y es capaz de afectar los campos neuronales individuales en la misma dirección. Su

Cualquier distorsión que el cerebro es capaz de imprimir en la lattice y el hipercampo es una manifestación de poder, desde las que activan las imágenes visuales hasta las que modifican el factor de direccionalidad colectivo.

Men's brains may be bigger, but women's contain more brain cells. Also, male and female brains work differently. When men and women perform identical tasks, different areas of their brains light up in response. In addition, females use both hemispheres, while male brain activity is restricted to one side. (21)

Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

Everything that goes on in your whole life is a result of molecules rushing around somewhere in your brain.

Our internal life and external actions are steered by biological coctails to which we have neither immediate access nor direct acquaintance.

I realized, 'Oh my gosh! I'm having a stroke! I'm having a stroke!' The next thing my brain says to me is, 'Wow! This is so cool! How many brain scientists have the opportunity to study their own brain from the inside out?

Although the statistics vary depending upon whom you ask, virtually everyone who is right handed (over 85% of the U.S. population) is left hemisphere dominant. At the same time, over 60% of left handed people are also classified as left hemisphere dominant. Let's take a closer look at the asymmetries of

For many of us, once we have made a decision, then we are attached to that decision forever. I have found that often the last thing a really dominating left hemisphere wants is to share its limited cranial space with an open-minded right counterpart!

It is interesting to note that although our limbic system functions throughout our lifetime, it does not mature. As a result, when our emotional "buttons" are pushed, we retain the ability to react to incoming stimulation as though we were a two year old, even when we are adults.

Listening to music is one of the few activities that engages the entire brain

There is evidence from evolutionary biology, sociology, neuroscience, and many other fields that we need to abandon our old misanthropic (and misogynist) notions for a sweeping new view of human nature.

She viewed romance like any other biological process. It was the product of chemical and electrical signaling in her brain, inspired by input from the outside world.

We have this thin layer of prefrontal cortex made just for us, sitting on top of this big animal brain. Getting this thin little layer to handle more is unrealistic." The prefrontal cortex doesn't control most of the decisions we make every day. We can't fundamentally get more out of that unique, thin layer of prefrontal cortex. "It's already overtaxed,

One recent study, conducted in a British government agency that switched from enclosed offices to an open-plan workspace, found that the heightened imperative to engage in self-presentation in such settings fell most heavily on women, for whom appearance is considered especially important.) When people are relieved of the cognitive load imposed by their environment, they immediately become more creative, neuroscientist Moshe Bar has found.

Our experiments not only proved the existence of a nervous apparatus in the above-mentioned glands, but also disclosed some facts clearly showing the participation of these nerves in normal activity.

To the extent that we have a better understanding of the brain, we will have a richer appreciation of ourselves, of our fellow men and of society and, in fact, of the whole world and its problems.

I don't think anyone disagrees that male and female brains work differently.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I can analyze how I do things, but the actual doing it - when the synapses just start firing - I can't explain.

The brain is behind the really big questions we have. Who am I, what is my identity? What is that based on? If memories are encoded in connectomes, your personality might be in your connectome. If that's the case, that's the basis of your uniqueness as a person.