Quotes About Cognition

And just to complicate matters, autistic people seem to get visual cues mixed up with aural cues. Normally when a person is listening, the visual cortex gets turned down. But a 2012 fMRI study found that when autistics were listening to sound cues, their visual cortices remained more active than neurotypicals'. If that's the case, then even while they're straining to process aural cues, they're being distracted and confused by visual cues.

Research has also shown that when performing language tasks, the autistic subject relies on the visual and spatial areas of the brain more heavily than the neurotypical subject does, perhaps to compensate for a lack of the kind of semantic knowledge that comes with social interaction

Kozhevnikov, a lecturer at Harvard Medical School and a researcher at the visual-spatial cognition lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, is one of the first scientists to differentiate between two kinds of visual thinkers: spatial visualizers and object visualizers. In her 2002 landmark

But I don't remember. I won't remember. Memory is an act of will, and so is forgetting.

What you end up remembering isn't always the same as what you have witnessed.

The unlocatable location of things thought about

Thinking, then, is not conscious. Rather, it is an automatic process following a struction and the materials on which the struction is to operate.

language is an organ of perception, not simply a means of communication

Subjective conscious mind is an analog of what is called the real world. It is built up with a vocabulary or lexical field whose terms are all metaphors or analogs of behavior in the physical world…concrete metaphors increase enormously our powers of perception of the world about us and our understanding of it, and literally create new objects.

Consciousness is a much smaller part of our mental life than we are conscious of, because we cannot be conscious of what we are not conscious of.

And why are we least conscious when doing something most habitual? Certainly this seesawing relationship between consciousness and actions is something that any theory of consciousness must explain.

Confidence is something you feel before you truly understand the situation

She remembers that everything she remembers is not necessarily true.

She remembers that she is forgetting.

We naturally look for evidence that confirms our beliefs. We then experience what we believe, even when there is evidence to suggest otherwise.d

cognitive psychologist Jerome Bruner (1977) wrote, "Grasping the structure of a subject is understanding it in a way that permits many other things to be related to it meaningfully" (p. 7).

I'm as alone as that cat, much more alone because I know it and he doesn't.

me veo desde las palabras como si fuera otro, puedo pensar cualquier cosa siempre que en seguida lo escriba, deformación profesional o algo que se empieza a ablandar en las meninges.

Y qué es, acaso, la memoria sino una gran mentira?

Each new grammar pattern we find sheds light on how the human brain creates language. The loss of even one language may forever close the door to a full understanding of human cognitive capacity.

Memories are tricky; there's what you remember, and what you think you remember, the editions and redactions of memory, the corrections and amendations and blundered readings and the whole apparatus criticus of the conscious mind trying to make bread out of soup.

Aidi nodded. "Lying to yourself's always a problem," he said.

He never makes notes, he just remembers it all, like a barmaid.

Reality depends upon your mind alone.[34]