Quotes About Cognition

Ignoran que el hombre vale por su saber;

Las nociones mal digeridas sólo sirven para atorar el entendimiento. Pueblan su memoria

Stupefaction, when it persists, becomes stupidity.

The happy life does not mean loving what we possess, but possessing what we love." Possession of the beloved, St. Thomas holds, takes place in an act of cognition, in seeing, in intuition, in contemplation.

The great threat we pose to each other is a fruit of our sublime ability to generalize.

Take a brute out of his instinct, and you find him wholly deprived of understanding.

Reading is to the mind what exerise is to the body.

Reading to the mind is what exercise is to the body.

These narrative moves reduce dissonance and help maintain a sense of control and personal unity.

one thing that is often missing from conscious awareness is the reason or motivation for why a particular behavior was produced.

Schelling] viewed art as an organ of metaphysical cognition. The vehicle through which the mysteries of the highest transcendental truths are revealed to mankind.

More and more frequently, we will find ourselves in the position of the lower animals—with a mental apparatus that is unequipped to deal thoroughly with the intricacy and richness of the outside environment." The irony is that, "unlike the animals, whose cognitive powers have always been relatively deficient, we have created our own deficiency by constructing a radically more complex world.

Misery is almost always the result of thinking.

The breath of the mind is attention 128

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Fear and other emotions are based on assumptions, presuppositions, and expectations; they are constructed in the brain from nonemotional ingredients.

No doubt one of the reasons human cognition is so powerful is because we have language in our brains, which exponentially increases the ability to categorize information, to chunk. A whole culture, for instance, can be implied by a name.

Anxiety, in short, is a conscious feeling. It can arise in a bottom-up way, driven by activity in defensive circuits or from higher processes that conceptualize worry, either about an uncertain future or about existence itself.

Self-knowledge is certainly a significant aspect of human motivation, but even animals that are not self-aware, or at least not robustly aware of who they are the way a human is, are motivated to do things-they seek food and shelter and avoid predators and injury. Much of what we humans do is also influenced by processes that percolate along outside of awareness. Consciousness is important, but so are the underlying cognitive, emotional, and motivational processes that work unconsciously.

Language is not just a system for talking and reading. Talking and reading reflect the cognitive elaborations brought into the brain by language.

When a person is worried, working memory is occupied and decreases one's ability to perform effectively and efficiently.

psychological constructs fall under five broad functional domains or systems: negative valence systems (e.g., threat processing), positive valence systems (reward processing), cognitive systems (e.g., attention, perception, memory, working memory, executive function), arousal and regulatory systems (e.g., brain arousal, circadian rhythm, motivation), and social processing systems (e.g., attachment, separation).

My notion of personality is pretty simple: it's that your "self," the essence of who you are, reflects patterns of interconnectivity between neurons in your brain.

For example, the easiest way to identify which emotion you are feeling is to label it verbally as fear, anger, love, or disgust. Some even insist that you don't really know what you are feeling until you have labeled it.