Quotes About Cognition

You've got on a white coat. (Ephani) Awesome cognitive powers you have there. (Alexion)

Well, I think that people are smart enough to understand the difference between a movie and real life.

There are two types of people in life - those who get it and those who don't.

Illusions are crucial to the maintenance of life functions.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

As soon as man applies his intelligence to any object at all, he unfailingly destroys the object.

More important than raw size is what we can do with our brains, such as communicate with complex language and learn through culture.

Even at five, I was beginning to understand the world of things better than the world of people.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

suggestion of some cognitive scientists that there is no unified self at the core of each individual; the self is just a byproduct of the interaction of a host of cognitive functions.

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

Your memory is a monster; you forget—it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from you—and summons them to your recall with will of its own. You think you have a memory; but it has you!

The amount of data in the world is doubling every few years, but our attention system, like the rest of the brain, was built to make sense of the surrounding environment as it existed ten thousand years ago.

The more we build these networks and enrich our stores of memory and experience, the easier it is to learn, because what we already know serves as a foundation for forming increasingly complex thoughts.

exercise provides an unparalleled stimulus, creating an environment in which the brain is ready, willing, and able to learn.

Exercise is not an instant cure, but you need to get your brain working again, and if you move your body your brain won't have any choice.

For a short time, one or two hours, stress does wonderful things for the brain," Sapolsky told the conference. "More oxygen and glucose are delivered to the brain. The hippocampus, which is involved in memory, works better when you are stressed for a little while. Your brain releases more dopamine, which plays a role in the experience of pleasure, early on during stress; it feels wonderful, and your brain works better.

in a 2007 study of humans, German researchers found that people learn vocabulary words 20 percent faster following exercise than they did before exercise, and that the rate of learning correlated directly with levels of BDNF.

A notable experiment in 2007 showed that cognitive flexibility improves after just one thirty-five-minute treadmill session at either 60 percent or 70 percent of maximum heart rate.

study shows that exercise—or at least the resulting fitness levels—can have a powerful impact on that fundamental skill.

Sedentary behavior causes brain impairment, and we know how: by depriving your brain of the flood of neurochemistry that evolution developed in order to grow brains and keep them healthy.

One of Bob's aphorisms," says Stickgold, "is that for every two hours your brain spends taking in information during the day, it needs an hour of sleep to figure out what it means. If you don't get that hour, you don't figure it out. The difference between smart and wise is two hours more sleep a night." This idea takes on a new dimension

so as far as our brains are concerned, if we're not moving, there's no real need to learn anything.