Quotes About Neuroscience

They actually have brains in each of their eight arms!

The first three years, however, are especially important; what a child learns and decides about himself ("Am I loved or unloved, capable or not capable?") and the world around him ("Is it safe or threatening, encouraging or discouraging?") becomes part of the "wiring" of his brain. The outside world, which is experienced through a child's senses (hearing, seeing, smelling, and touching), enables the brain to create or change connections.

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

It seems odd to think of tasting without any perceptive experience, but you are doing it right now. Humans have taste receptor cells in the gut, the voice box, the upper esophagus. But only the tongue's receptors report to the brain.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

Anyway, there is a lot of really interesting work going on in the neuroscience and psychology of consciousness, and I would love to see philosophers become more closely involved with this.

It is fair to say that science provides no method of controlling the mind. Scientific work on the brain does not explain the mind-not yet.

I've always been fascinated by intelligence and how our brains work, and how they can be improved.

You know what, we don't know diddley squat about brains and no one has a clue how these things work, so don't believe what anyone tells you.

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

There are a nearly inconceivable number of synapses in the human brain – roughly five times as many as there are stars in the Milky Way galaxy!

The Biology of Desire: Why Addiction Is Not a Disease by Marc Lewis.

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine.

Humans Use Only 10% of Their Brains? Not Quite . . . "The most complex structure in the entire universe doesn't have just a vacant parking lot waiting for someone to drive in and start building. It's all used all the time, and in complex ways that we don't always understand.

The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an "I" that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of "self feeling.

Neuroscientist V. S. Ramachandran's work with phantom limbs seems to confirm the brain's remarkable ability to create a sense of cognitive unity even if the reality (of many selves, and of many layers of consciousness) is more complex.

The source of extraversion or introversion was in the varying levels of excitability of the brain; the driver

The fact that three-fifths of an octopus' neurons are not in their brain, but in their arms, suggests that each arm has a mind of its own.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

Writing poetry and reading books causes brain damage.

Your brain is the "greediest" organ in the body; the resting brain uses oxygen and glucose at 10 times the rate of the rest of the body. Thus, even though the brain makes up less than 2.5 percent of total body weight, it is responsible for 20 percent of the body's energy consumption.

People who have lost their memories have lost much of what makes them who they are. Memory is what enables us to learn by experience. In fact, memory is essential to survival.

shortly after that, their brains began to grow! The human