Quotes About Cognition

As people construct a life narrative, researchers have found, they tend to remember more events from the teens and twenties than from any other time. It's called the 'reminiscence bump.'

You know, whether it be humans or animals. So even humans - before we can speak or we can understand a baby's cognition - they're already showing us signs that they want choice.

One trick, known as the journey method or 'memory palace,' is to conjure up a familiar space in the mind's eye, and then populate it with images of whatever it is you want to remember.

You can say anything you want about how the brain works and people will believe you. Really, our brains are hard-wired like that.

There's nothing sexier in a man than intelligence.

On the delusional theory of consciousness

The mind boggles, in other words, but the brain toggles- sometimes quite rapidly, from one task to the next.

Later she would learn that a mistrust of one's senses was a normal reaction to situations like this. Though the body is alerted and absolutely certain about what is happening, the brain might try to find a way to reason out of it. Was there a word for disbelief in one's own sense.

Sometimes it's harder to notice a place you think you know well; your eyes glide over it, seeing it but not seeing it at all. It's almost as if familiarity gives you a kind of temporary blindness.

Memory believes before knowing remembers. —William Faulkner, Light in August

Reading literary fiction stimulates cognition beyond the brain functions related to reading, say, magazine articles, interviews, or most online nonfiction reporting.

language helps create our reality.

Occasionally, I have to think like myself to remember where I put something.

Intelligence is really a kind of taste: taste in ideas.

as Thomas Paine said, it has never been discovered how to make a man unknow his knowledge.

There is thought, and then there is thinking about thoughts, and they don't feel the same.

She knows the poem.

Real thinking is possible only in the light of genuine language, no matter how limited, how primitive;

Knowing it and seeing it are two different things.

Does he remember that?

Manusia memiliki ingatan yang pendek. [P. 18]

illusions are tricks on the brain!

Reading requires the brain to rearrange its original parts to learn something new.

Sometimes when you're drunk you can see better.