Quotes About Neuroscience

As a number of scientists have noted, research on the human brain is complicated by the fact that the brain is struggling to understand itself. This three-pound organ is perhaps the only bit of matter in the universe—at least as far as we know—that is observing itself, wondering about itself, trying to analyze itself, and attempting to gain better control of its own capabilities.

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Behavioral psychology is the science of pulling habits out of rats.   Ã¢â'¬â€Douglas Busch

His smile did more than lack warmth. It was the most purely physical smile Myron had ever seen, a byproduct strictly of the brain giving specific orders to certain muscles. It touched no part of him but his lips. Myron

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

I think that we are already making steps toward mapping out the brain so we can identify the chemical patterns that create and store memory.

I can be a bit of a science geek. I tend more towards reading about brain science, neuroscience.

The work of neuroscientist Antonio Damasio offers insight into the origins of this guilt. Damasio describes two levels of experiencing pain. The first is a physical response to a painful stimulus. The second, a far more complex reaction, is an emotion associated with pain. This is an internal representation of the physical.

Thought is just a secretion from our brain.

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

Until recently, we regarded love as supernatural. We were willing to study the brain chemistry of fear and depression and anger but not love.

What would be the use of a neuroscience that cannot tell us anything about love?

Your brain doesn't process language quite like other people. Why that is, I have no idea.' 'I have a superior brain?' 'Uh,' Eliot said, 'I wouldn't go that far.'

The people we most love do become a physical part of us, ingrained in our synapses, in the pathways where memories are created.

The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of information per second and can remember everything you have ever seen or heard.

the brain can process two million bits of information per second. It remembers everything you've ever seen, everything you've ever heard…

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the senses.

Researchers have found that the brain definitely sends nerves directly to organs of the immune system and not just to the heart and the lower gut. In that way, too, the brain is influencing the body.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.