Quotes About Cognition

Truths are known to us in two ways: some are known directly, and of themselves; some through the medium of other truths. The former are the subject of Intuition, or Consciousness; 4 the latter, of Inference.

Human beings have an almost unlimited capacity for self-delusion. We can justify any amount of sadness if it fits our own particular standard of reality.

Humans have this need to name everything, no matter how little that thing may deserve it.

When we talk mathematics, we may be discussing a secondary language built on the primary language truly used by the central nervous system.

Conciencia implica adquirir un conocimiento de algo a través de la reflexión, de la observación o de la interpretación de lo que uno ve, oye, siente, etcétera».

he felt the logic of grammar, and he thought he perceived how it spread out from itself, permeating the language and supporting human thought.

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

God knows what I thought! Your brain does amazing acrobatics when it doesn't want to believe something.

no importa su edad o estado cerebral, hay muchas cosas que usted puede hacer para mejorar de manera significativa el funcionamiento de su cerebro y frenar el envejecimiento del mismo.

Una consecuencia de la plasticidad del cerebro es que cada experiencia, pensamiento y emoción cambia físicamente su cerebro, de lo que se desprende que usted, querido lector, tiene la capacidad, y la responsabilidad, de cuidar y mejorar su cerebro.

Working memory is the type of memory that allows us to both hold information in mind and work on it as needed.

Cognition and emotion are both critical parts of normal functioning. As neatly summarized by Dr. Robert Sylwester (whose interview can be found at the end of this chapter): "Emotion is the system that tells us how important something is. Attention focuses us on the important and away from the unimportant things. Cognition tells us what to do about it. Cognitive skills are whatever it takes to do those things.

cualquier cosa que hagamos que implique novedad, variedad y desafío, estimula el cerebro y puede contribuir a aumentar la reserva cognitiva.

Robert Siegler of Carnegie Mellon University has

The way [we conduct naming experiments is] to show the child two pictures, [for example, of] a baby and a doggie. You ask, "Where's the baby?" Or "Where's the doggie?" However, if [you] change the sentence a little bit and you say, "There's a ball over there," and put [the word "ball"] in the middle instead of at the end [of the sentence], they fall apart completely. They can't get it. Fernald

The way we first take in information (that is, mindfully or mindlessly) determines how we will use it later.

The same situation of stimulus called by a different name is a different stimulus. Roller coasters are fun but bumpy plane rides are not!

The limits of our cognition are not defined by the limits of our language.

La peggiore violenza contro l'uomo è la degradazione dell'intelletto.

Every falsity is something we can convince ourselves of, and when we have done so it seems to us to be the truth:

You should be attracted to someone's level of intelligence and not just his or her level of education. For, someone could graduate from the best University and yet remains clueless about the world and the society that he or she finds himself or herself. -Emeasoba George

Nihil est in intellectu quod non ante fuerit in sensu

A man may be put to death by a thought.

What a comfort it was, I thought, to hear someone put into words something that you were on the verge of grasping.