Quotes About Cognition

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

I had post-traumatic amnesia, five-second memory, it happens as a result of brain injury.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

I've got a terrible memory; it's probably because I'm always concentrating on what I'm doing now.

I have a good memory for words, and when I come upon a word I don't know, I remember it, or try to - it's almost like a tic. I also just have a good feeling for how words are made and formed in English and the etymologies that give you prefixes and suffixes.

I am a people watcher and I have a very good memory.

My memory's bad!

My memory's pretty much gone.

I have a terrible memory.

I don't think forgetting is an important feature of human memory. I think it's important to be able to remember things accurately.

The use of the wearable computer changes with each person. When this device is your way of seeing, or a seeing aid, it's how you see the world. When you use it as a memory aid, it is your brain.

I have a good flavor memory.

I have found that all of my memories seem to need a place and that a good part of what we think of as explicit memory has to do with location.

What a thing is and what it means are not separate, the former being physical and the latter mental as we are accustomed to believe.

As to the mental essence, we find it in infants devoid of every mental form.

I need to be mentally stimulated.

A lot of stuff people do these days is not mentally challenging.

For me, most things are mental. You do better if you analyse and address the issue mentally.

Metaphor creates a kind of conceptual synesthesia, in which we understand one concept in the context of another.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

I don't believe that you have to be a cow to know what milk is.

A mind cannot be independent of culture.

What the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes.

It's all in the mind, you know.