Quotes About Cognition

Memory builds itself without any clean or objective logic: a dot here, another dot here, and plenty of dark spaces in between. What we know is always evolving, always subdividing. Remember a memory often enough and you can create a new memory, the memory of remembering.

Where do memories go once we've lost our ability to summon them? It

suave y con acento. «Niños, el cerebro está envuelto por una oscuridad total —dice la voz—. Flota en un líquido transparente en el interior del cráneo y jamás recibe luz. Pero a pesar de eso el mundo que construye en nuestra mente está lleno de luz, rebosante de colores y de movimiento. ¿Cómo puede ser que el cerebro, que jamás conoce una chispa de luz, construya en nuestro interior un

Frederick blinks several times. As he often does when addressed in class, waiting for his internal life to catch up with his external one.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

The brain is locked in total darkness, of course, children, says the voice. It floats in a clear liquid inside the skull, never in the light. And yet the world it constructs in the mind is full of light. It brims with color and movement. So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true either is true or becomes true.

Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.

As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how any one brain pathway is used.

One can't live mindfully without being enmeshed in psychological processes that are around us.

There has been a great gulf in psychological thought between the perception of space and objects on one hand and the perception of meaning on the other.

Sound affects us physiologically, psychologically, cognitively, and behaviorally all the time. The sound around us is affecting us even though we're not conscious of it.

Intuition does not in itself amount to knowledge, yet cannot be disregarded by philosophers and psychologists.

Psychology is the science of the intellects, characters and behavior of animals including man.

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

In Psychology we deal with minds and their processes, and leave out of account as far as possible the objects that we get to know by means of them.

Oh, I'm a psychology nerd; I love to learn about why people behave the way they do, how experiences influence us.

In all the sciences except Psychology we deal with objects and their changes, and leave out of account as far as possible the mind which observes them.

I'm somebody who's super into psychology and analysis and the human psyche and the human experience.

I want to get a master's degree in... psychology.

One's head is finite. You pour more and more things into it - surnames, chronologies, affiliations - and it packs them away in its tunnels, and eventually you find that you have a book about something that you publish.

The pure natural scientist is liable to forget that minds exist, and that if it were not for them he could neither know nor act on physical objects.

For our purposes as human beings, the mind is the center of everything.

When you walk, your brain is working better. More blood flow.