Quotes About Cognition

We are uttering a mere tautology if we mean by 'in the mind' the same as by 'before the mind', i.e. if we mean merely being apprehended by the mind.

We are not only aware of things, but we are often aware of being aware of them.

The faculty of being acquainted with things other than itself is the main characteristic of a mind.

Ideas are merely points that memory selects in the flow of thought

we can only infer it, and can never be directly and immediately aware of it.

Acquaintance with objects essentially consists in a relation between the mind and something other than the mind; it is this that constitutes the mind's power of knowing things. If we say that the things known must be in the mind, we are either unduly limiting the mind's power of knowing, or we are uttering a mere tautology.

All our knowledge, both knowledge of things and knowledge of truths, rests upon acquaintance (connaitre, kennen) as its foundation

self-consciousness is the source of all our knowledge of mental things.

Thinking that you know when in fact you don't is a fatal mistake, to which we are all prone.

How is it possible to bring order out of memory?

We are dangerously devaluing knowledge and learning by no longer having a requirement to remember anything at all.

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

After many years of research on how the human brain learns to read, I came to an unsettlingly simple conclusion: We humans were never born to read.

Do some research on the effects of television and your brain, and I promise you you'll have a decision to make when it comes to television, especially with what you watch.

We resemble computers intellectually and animals emotionally.

The cognitive skills that underpin resilience, then, seem like they can indeed be learned over time, creating resilience where there was none.

If you exercise your mind, you're not going to get sick.

I come from a family who prided themselves, both sides, on memory. And I was told growing up, constantly, that I was born with a really good memory.

Without a functioning hippocampus, names, dates, and other information falls straight through the mind like a sieve.

We have about 100 million cells interconnected in our brains. They communicate with one another through electrical signals.

Humor is by far the most significant activity of the human brain.

Chimps can do all sorts of things we thought that only we could do - like tool-making and abstraction and generalisation. They can learn a language - sign language - and they can use the signs. But when you think of our intellects, even the brightest chimp looks like a very small child.

Our study showed that the false memory and the genuine memory are based on very similar, almost identical, brain mechanisms. It is difficult for the false memory bearer to distinguish between them.

Simple people... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.