Quotes About Cognition

One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning, and I think that's a really cool take-home message," Cotman says. "Because it suggests that if you're in good shape, you may be able to learn and function more efficiently.

What makes aerobic exercise so powerful is that it's our evolutionary method of generating that spark. It lights a fire on every level of your brain, from stoking up the neurons' metabolic furnaces to forging the very structures that transmit information from one synapse to the next.

It turns out that moving our muscles produces proteins that travel through the bloodstream and into the brain, where they play pivotal roles in the mechanisms of our highest thought processes.

One of the prominent features of exercise, which is sometimes not appreciated in studies, is an improvement in the rate of learning

physical activity counts as novel experience, at least as far as the brain is concerned.

the message I want to leave you with is that even as your body changes, exercise will keep your mind firm and taught.

Enseña a tres personas una fotografía de un clavo. Las dos primeras dirán , pero el psicoanalista replicará:

Las manos no son lo verdaderamente peligroso. Lo verdaderamente peligroso es, es lo que tenemos en la cabeza".

What a strange thing it is to recognize a sound like the shriek of a wounded animal, when you've never heard the shriek of a wounded animal.

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

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, a white paper, void of all characters, without any ideas. How comes it to be furnished? ... To this I answer, in one word, from experience.

Reading furnishes the mind only with material for knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.

Nothing is in the intellect that was not first in the senses.

Beasts abstract not.

It is evident the mind knows not things immediately, but only by the intervention of the ideas it has of them.

We understand human mental processes only slightly better than a fish understands swimming.

That's one thing can't be bought is brains. Only God can give brains. And they don't come off the wind either.

Repeat to remember.

To put it bluntly, research shows that we can't multitask. We are biologically incapable of processing attention-rich inputs simultaneously.

As always, there are exceptions. Adults with training can still learn to distinguish speech sounds in other languages. But in general, the brain appears to have a limited window of opportunity in an astonishingly early time frame. The cognitive door begins swinging shut at 6 months old, and then, unless something pushes against it, the door closes. By 12 months, your baby's brain has made decisions that affect her the rest of her life.

WE DO NOT SEE with our eyes. We see with our brains.

learned about the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which said that the language you spoke affected how you processed reality.

I felt every level, graphemic, morphological, and semantic, and they all hurt.