Quotes About Cognition

The adage that fact is stranger than fiction seems to be especially true for the workings of the brain.

One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.

But if perception is thus a function of movement, then what we perceive must, at least in part, depend on how we move. Locomotion, not cognition, must be the starting point for the study of perceptual activity. Or more strictly, cognition should not be set off from locomotion, along the lines of a division between head and heels, since walking is itself a form of circumambulatory knowing.

But the thing about remembering is that you don't forget.

Not only does language reflect a person's thinking, but it also reinforces a person's thinking.

Maxwell Maltz wrote, "It is conscious thinking which is the 'control knob' of your unconscious machine."31

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to.

It is an underacknowledged truism that, just as you are what you eat, how and what you think depends on what information you are exposed to. How

From Bacteria to Bach and Back: The Evolution of Minds by Daniel C. Dennett. How consciousness arises, and how much it depends on a sense of past, present, and future (plus a lot of other interesting insights).

There's the instant, unconscious, automatic thinking and then there's the slower, conscious, rational, deliberate thinking.

En el fondo, el cerebro no es capaz de procesar todo en ese entorno, ni por asomo. Así que a lo máximo que llega es a aplicar esos pequeños filtros. Y

The Female Brain by Louann Brizendine.

Los límites de mi lenguaje representan los límites de mi mundo».

Whole areas of my mind, I have come to realize, distrust other areas.

Intelligence is the ultimate aphrodisiac

Do not obey in advance.

The evil that we know is best.

How we choose to feed our minds is just as important as what we put into our bodies. At every moment of the day we are receiving impressions through sight, sound, smell, taste, and touch.

Psychology is the science of mental life." William James

Emerging in the 1960s, cognitive psychology used the same rigorous scientific approach as behaviorism but returned to the question of how behavior is actually generated inside the head. Between

Emerging in the 1960s, cognitive psychology used the same rigorous scientific approach as behaviorism but returned to the question of how behavior is actually generated inside the head.

The remarkable writings of Oliver Sacks, for instance, show that the brain continually works to create and maintain the feeling of an "I" that is in control, even if there is in fact no part of the brain that can be identified as the locus of "self feeling.

In Psychological Types, Jung suggested two contrasting ways in which people saw the world. Some people can appreciate reality only through their five senses ("sensing" types), while others wait for internal confirmation of what is true or real, relying on their unconscious. These

He noted the remarkable contrast between how the depressed person feels—that they are a loser or that their life has gone horribly wrong—and the actual conditions of their life, which are often high in achievement. Beck's conclusion was that depression therefore had to be based on problems in thinking. By