Quotes About Cognition

He said brains are needed to recall memories, but it appears brains are not where memories are stored.

In one test, subjects were presented with contradictory statements made by George Bush and John Kerry. Republicans judged Kerry's flip-flop harshly, while letting Bush off the hook for his. Democrats did the reverse. Interestingly, the brain scans showed that the parts of the brain governing emotion were far more active during the experiment than the reasoning parts.

They're making us think our thoughts are what we're thinking...I think.-Patrick Star

How often are you aware of your surroundings, really aware? And how often are you merely reacting in the same automatic way as you do in dreams?

While most of what you think of as memory involves retrieving information from the past, prospective memory, or memory for intentions, refers to our ability to remember our intention to carry out some specific action at a future time or circumstance.

we do this by forming a mental connection between what we want to remember to do and the future circumstances in which we intend to do it.

Audience members will notice the most salient (because of its striking color, size, or other eye-catching characteristic) line first and interpret it as the most important.

What words cannot convey ... the mind can read.

Logical thinking can outwit random processing!

para hacer un uso efectivo del modo difuso, primero debemos plantar la semilla en nuestro cerebro usando el modo enfocado.

Outros estudos mostram que se você tiver apenas 1% de desidratação, é provável que você experimente até 5% de diminuição na função cognitiva.

El cerebro humano, una vez que ha adoptado una opinión, selecciona cuidadosamente toda la información que recibe para apoyar y estar de acuerdo con ella. Y aunque haya un mayor número de evidencia y ejemplos que prueben lo contrario, o bien la descuida y la desprecia, o bien la deja de lado y la rechaza para que con esta predeterminación perniciosa, la autoridad de sus primeras conclusiones puedan permanecer invioladas". (Francis Bacon, 1602).

You're life is a print-out of your thoughts."

Reading is a lot like physical exercise. Reading is a workout for the brain.

What we need to learn to do is to look at thought, rather than from thought.

ACT uses acceptance and mindfulness processes and commitment and behavioral activation processes to produce psychological flexibility. It seeks to bring human language and cognition under better contextual control so as to overcome the repertoire-narrowing effects of an excessive reliance on a problem-solving mode of mind as well as to promote a more open, centered, and engaged approach to living.

The quantity and quality of your sleep plays a major role in your ability to learn new information.

When you're not sleeping, you're not thinking straight.

We are slow to believe that which if believed would hurt our feelings.

Slow thinking has the feeling of something you do. It's deliberate.

Slower television actually credits the audience with a higher level of intelligence.

The small part of ignorance that we arrange and classify we give the name of knowledge.

I'm so smart. I am good at doing math really quickly in my head.

Fish aren't smart. It's not like they have advanced degrees.