Quotes About Neuroscience

Ask not what the brain can do for the computer. Ask what the computer can do for the brain.

I first got interested in the brain through computers.

We know that there is a connection between our feelings and our brain.

When brains get sufficiently big, presumably, as human brains have, consciousness seems to emerge.

While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.

Why is it surprising that scientists might have long hair and wear cowboy boots? In fields like neuroscience, where the events you are recording are so minute, I suspect scientists cultivate a boring, reliable image. A scientist with a reputation for flamboyance might be suspect.

I suspect that pleasure is mainly used to turn off parts of the brain so you can keep fresh the memories of things you're trying to learn. It protects the short-term memory buffers. That's one theory of pleasure.

One of the things I've come to appreciate about the brain is the importance of location. It's not just a set of interchangeable parts that you can swap in and out.

Series of syllables which have been learned by heart, forgotten, and learned anew must be similar as to their inner conditions at the times when they can be recited.

We do not know where to look, or what to look for, when something is memorized. We do not know what it means, or what change there is in the nervous system, when a fact is learned. This is a very important problem which has not been solved at all.

Now, there are a very large number of bodily movements, having their source in our nervous system, that do not possess the character of conscious actions.

Memory comprises three basic processes: encoding, storage, and retrieval.

is a good deal of scientific support for the hypothesis that higher levels of thinking depend on language.

There is a strong link between synesthesia and photographic memory (technically called eidetic memory) or at least heightened memory (hypermnesis). Many synesthetes used their synesthesia as a mnemonic aid.

Synapses in motion tend to stay in motion. Synapses at rest tend to stay at rest.

first group of subjects—the "targets"—entered emotional states in response to external prompts, while researchers scanned relevant regions of their brains using fMRI. The researchers then scanned the same brain regions of a second group of subjects—the "trainees"—in real time.

Prolonged cocaine use, which diminishes dopamine functioning, gives support to the general rule that external sources of exuberance are ultimately overruled by the brain's inclination to seek out equilibrium.

Language, on the other hand, newer to the brain, may be more linked to those parts that regulate dopamine and thereby connected to pleasure.

The simple act of moving your body will do more for your brain than any riddle, math equation, mystery book, or even thinking itself.

The one variable that clearly stood out above all others was whether or not the mice had a running wheel. It didn't matter if they had things to play with in their cages. The animals that exercised were the ones who had healthier brains and outperformed on the cognitive tests.

According to the latest research, we owe our tremendous brains to the need to think… and the need to run.

The chief function of the body is to carry the brain around. —THOMAS A. EDISON

Your brain… weighs three pounds and has one hundred thousand miles of blood vessels. contains more connections than there are stars in the Milky Way. is the fattest organ in your body. could be suffering this very minute without your having a clue.

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