Quotes About Cognition

la inteligencia emocional destaca especialmente sobre el CI en aquellos dominios "blandos" en los que la relevancia del intelecto para el éxito es relativamente menor, es decir, en aquellos dominios en los que habilidades tales como la autorregulación emocional y la empatía, por ejemplo, son más decisivas que las competencias estrictamente cognitivas.

el estrés atonta a la gente».

Quando a nossa mente vagueia, o nosso cérebro ativa um conjunto de circuitos cerebrais que tagarelam sobre coisas que não têm nada que ver com aquilo que estamos a tentar aprender. Na ausência de foco, nenhuma nova recordação daquilo que aprendemos é armazenada.

el neocórtex puede aprender a inhibir el funcionamiento de la amígdala.

A surprise: mindfulness also improved working memory—the holding in mind of information so it can transfer into long-term memory. Attention is crucial for working memory; if we aren't paying attention, those digits won't register in the first place.

A reader's mind typically wanders anywhere from 20 to 40 percent of the time while perusing a text.

Anatomically the emotional system can act independently of the neocortex," LeDoux told me. "Some emotional reactions and emotional memories can be formed without any conscious, cognitive participation at all.

Lo que distingue a las estrellas de los demás no es el coeficiente intelectual académico, sino el emocional.

Capturar uma mente divagante em ação é ardiloso; quase sempre, quando estamos perdidos em pensamentos, não conseguimos perceber que a nossa mente começou a vaguear no momento em que isso aconteceu. Notar que a nossa mente divagou assinala uma mudança na atividade cerebral; quanto maior for esta metaconsciência, mais fraca se torna a divagação da mente.

Sobrecarregar a atenção diminui o domínio mental. É no momento em que estamos mais tensos que esquecemos os nomes das pessoas que conhecemos bem, já para não falar nas datas dos seus aniversários, dos nossos aniversários de casamento e de outros dados socialmente cruciais.

las emociones descontroladas pueden convertir en estúpida a la gente más inteligente.

Music may be the activity that prepared our pre-human ancestors for speech communication and for the very cognitive, representational flexibility necessary to become humans.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

Music communicates to us emotionally through systematic violations of expectations.

Wilson showed that the cognitive losses from multitasking are even greater than the cognitive losses from pot smoking.

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

Intelligence is not only the ability to reason; it is also the ability to find relevant material in memory and to deploy attention when needed.

This is the essence of intuitive heuristics: when faced with a difficult question, we often answer an easier one instead, usually without noticing the substitution.

we can be blind to the obvious, and we are also blind to our blindness.

A general "law of least effort" applies to cognitive as well as physical exertion. The law asserts that if there are several ways of achieving the same goal, people will eventually gravitate to the least demanding course of action. In the economy of action, effort is a cost, and the acquisition of skill is driven by the balance of benefits and costs. Laziness is built deep into our nature.

A reliable way of making people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition, because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth.

The world makes much less sense than you think. The coherence comes mostly from the way your mind works.

The illusion that we understand the past fosters overconfidence in our ability to predict the future.

The premise of this book is that it is easier to recognize other people's mistakes than our own.