Quotes About Cognition

A substantial literature on "verbal overshadowing," for instance, suggests that consciously reflecting on our perceptions or evaluations of taste, and then being forced to put them into words, actually impairs our judgment.

How could he think his way out of the problem when the problem was the way he thought...

Most people avoid thinking if they can, some of us are addicted to thinking, but Von Neumann actually enjoyed thinking, maybe even to the exclusion of everything else.

From the lowest animals of which we can affirm intelligence up to man this type of intellect is found.

I do believe that there are some universal cognitive tasks that are deep and profound - indeed, so deep and profound that it is worthwhile to understand them in order to design our displays in accord with those tasks.

It's the guessing that develops a man's brain power. Just consider what you have to do to guess right.

A cognitive orphan becomes deprived of straightforwardness and sensibility; it stays unsure, for how and what to demonstrate.

Even though various definitions of perception, it also defines precisely such a thought that comes and stays in mind; however, it appears not as a physical appearance. Conversely, the tendency exists practically and works to prove its context.

The thought is the way and the source of knowledge, not the language.

Between memory and reality there are awkward discrepancies...

Thinking is painful business.

clear thinking find that unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all. This is why tests are given—to motivate learners to have that thrill of a good score or distress of a poor one, and we have found that

unless people have some emotional reason to learn something, they do not learn it very well or at all.

when being watched, timed, or evaluated, we often cannot display our competence. Our deeper processing may make it seem that at first we are not catching on, but with time we understand and remember more than others.

Not only have you been trained so thoroughly in how to think, but you have also been given the alternatives by which you could object to thinking a certain way.

knew I thought differently in Turkish and in English—not because thought and language were the same, but because different languages forced you to think about different things. Turkish

Why was that the thing you had to do when you saw a girl: to prosecute whether and in what way she was beautiful—as Lara, I realized, was? With guys, some of them were physically repellent or appealing, but a lot of them initially presented as neutral, and there wasn't that immediate, urgent-feeling cognitive puzzle to slot them in, as there was with literally every female person, including one's own self, in windows and storefronts.

I say 'told myself' because—and this became clearer to me later, I didn't know this back then, I wasn't wise to it—to put it bluntly, we never really know why we do what we do. The part of our brains tasked with generating reasons doesn't care about truth… only plausibility.

Brains can be healthy and still not work well.

Marcus Aurelius writes: 'The things you think about determine the quality of your mind. Your soul takes on the colour of your thoughts.

We used to believe that we were thinking beings who just happen to feel. We now know that we are feeling beings who think.

Phineas Gage's case is not the only important historical source in the effort to understand the neural basis of reasoning and decision making;

Tal vez las cosas han de ser primero soñadas para fijarse en la memoria.

because her sharp intelligence allowed her to understand the extent of what she hadn't learned.