Quotes About Cognition

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word.

Every now and then I will see a word as if for the first time, and suddenly appreciate that Evian is 'naive' spelled backward, or that Bosnia is an anagram of 'bonsai.'

You can't hear a word and just hear it as raw sound; it always evokes an associated meaning and emotion in the brain.

When the time comes for your brain to process the information, the second word comes up faster than the first one. So when it's in your head, all of a sudden, it comes out backwards and you think of the word backwards.

Learning another language is not only learning different words for the same things, but learning another way to think about things.

One forgets words as one forgets names. One's vocabulary needs constant fertilizing or it will die.

The human brain is a funny thing: it's very susceptible to tempo and melody. You put the right words to it, and it becomes very influential.

But I'm thinking about 12 things at once, a hundred thousand times a day. Most people do, I would imagine.

By subliminal, I mean things that occur in our world that are below the threshold of consciousness but do have a psychological effect on us.

We all have mental models: the lens through which we see the world that drive our responses to everything we experience. Being aware of your mental models is key to being objective.

Sometimes we talk about memory as though it's firm and fixed, but of course, memory is highly fluid and subjective and thus highly subject to manipulation.

The superiority of one mind over another depends on the rapidity with which experiences are thus organised.

Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.

My idea here is that, inasmuch as certain cognitive tasks and principles are tied to nature's laws, these tasks and principles are indifferent to language, culture, gender, or the particular mode of information that is provided.

Educational psychologist Jerome Bruner of New York University cites studies that show that people only remember 10% of what they hear, 30% of what they read, but about 80% of what they see and do.

All action results from thought, so it is thoughts that matter.

Unless you believe, you will not understand.

some could name things in their environment, others could count or say the alphabet, still others could recite whole books, word for word, from memory. However, they rarely used their speech to communicate with others. The

Cognitive insight (knowing something) is not like emotional insight (feeling something). It has no psychodynamic effects. It does not affect the narcissist's behavior patterns, or his interpersonal interactions - the products of well entrenched and rigid defense mechanisms.

Hiç kimse akl?ma filan girmedi. Benim akl?m, fikrim var; anl?yorum; gözüm var, görüyorum.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

There is nothing so unthinkable as thought, unless it be the entire absence of thought.

Memory is the primary and fundamental power, without which there could be no other intellectual operation.