Quotes About Cognition

We mostly see what we have learned to expect to see.

Anlamaktan sonra gelen bir hal vard?: Kavramak. Anlad???n?n bütün a??rl???n? beyninde duymak, ellerinde, kollar?nda, damarlar?nda duymak.

When you become senile, you won't know it.

O: 'Are you conscious of your thoughts before language embodies them?

We value concepts and ideas above experience

Calvin: Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Hobbes: Probably so we can think twice.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

Sometimes when I'm talking, my words can't keep up with my thoughts. I wonder why we think faster than we speak. Probably so we can think twice.

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Cognitive psychology has shown that the mind best understands facts when they are woven into a conceptual fabric, such as a narrative, mental map, or intuitive theory. Disconnected facts in the mind are like unlinked pages on the Web: They might as well not exist.

Though who knows the architecture of the mind, and whether the arches that open upon discrete episodes are ordered in any way sequentialy?

There is a reciprocal influence between thought and language. What we think molds the words we use, and the words we use react upon our thoughts.

Human thought elaborates itself with the progress of intelligence. Speech is the harvest of thought

The human mind's capacity to persuade itself of things it wants to believe is damn near limitless.

However, all this reading had disturbed their brains.

Acaso ha dejado de funcionar en mí una de las imperceptibles teclas del teclado cerebral?

There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous.

Vernunft (reason) is traced back to its origin in the verb vernehmen (to perceive, to hear)

There are some places the mind should not go; it gets steered there anyway.

She had learned that somewhere and stockpiled it in the back brain closet, the same closet where she stored information about Daryl Hannah being in Splash and Esperanza Diaz being the wrestler dubbed Little Pocahontas, the same closet that helped make Grace, in Jack's words, "Mistress of the Useless Factoid.

Memories aren't kept on some microchip in the skull or filed away in a cabinet somewhere deep in our cranium. Memories are something we reconstruct and piece together. They are fragments we manufacture to create what we think occurred or even simply hope to be true. In short, our memories are rarely accurate. They are biased reenactments. Shorter still: We all see what we want to see.

ALS does not affect cognitive process. Stephen Hawking, one of smartest people on the planet, has ALS. It rarely affects the eyes. It doesn't affect senses like hearing, taste and touch.

Biologically and physiologically, we are not equal. Some of us learn better at different times of day. Some learn best visually, some auditorially, some tactilely, by touching.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.