Quotes About Cognition

Every abstract idea brings with it an immense economy of thought.

Indeed, brain scans done by scientists at Washington University in St. Louis indicate that areas used to recall memories are the same as those involved in simulating the future. In particular, the link between the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex and the hippocampus lights up when a person is engaged in planning for the future and remembering the past.

My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call "mind"—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more. —CARL SAGAN

when a person tells a lie, he simultaneously has to know the truth, concoct the lie, and rapidly analyze the consistency of this lie with previously known facts.

Telling a lie causes more centres of the brain to light up than telling the truth. Telling a lie implies that you know the truth but are thinking of the lie and its myriad consequences, which requires more energy than telling the truth.

The brain, like it or not, is a machine. Scientists have come to that conclusion, not because they are mechanistic killjoys, but because they have amassed evidence that every aspect of consciousness can be tied to the brain. —STEVEN PINKER

If our brains were simple enough to be understood, we wouldn't be smart enough to understand them. —ANONYMOUS

There are an estimated 100 billion neurons residing inside the skull with an exponential amount of neural connections

We are now entering a new golden age of neuroscience.

Social animals, on the other hand, are more intelligent than those with just a reptilian brain.

Animals cannot speak and understand English

Los humanos somos los únicos en todo el reino animal capaces de comprender el concepto de mañana

If you take 200 voxels in this area, and look at which of them are active and which are inactive, you can construct a machine-learning device that decodes which number is being held in memory.

La única forma de almacenar información es por acuerdo.

Why do smart people exist, if not to figure out convoluted problems?

The different arts reach our brains in different ways; they lodge there with differing ease, at different speeds, with different degrees of inevitable simplifications; and for different durations

la memoria no filma, la memoria fotografía.

Winston Churchill wrote: 'Most of us often encounter the truth but we usually pick ourselves up and pretend it did not happen.

I dream in a language I do not understand when I'm awake.

I love the human mind.

Feelings are invulnerable to rational thought.

There is reason that all things are as they are, and did you see with my eyes and know with my knowledge, you would perhaps better understand.

knowledge is stronger than memory

Es esa facultad que nos permite creer en lo que nosotros sabemos que no es verdad.