Quotes About Cognition

The mere expo' sure effect does not depend on the conscious experience of familiarity.

To be read in context!!!) People who are "cognitively busy" are also more likely to make selfish choices, use sexist language, and make superficial judgments in social situations. Memorizing and repeating digits loosens the hold of System 2 on behavior, but if course cognitive load is not the only cause of weakened self-control.

The damaged frontal regions normally play an important role in assessing or monitoring signals provided by other neural systems.

emotional information attracts attention quickly and automatically

Recently, the scientific gods have grown kinder to psychologists.

Memory uses the filling-in trick, but imagination is the filling-in trick

the only thing these facts clearly show is that people tend to see what they want to see.

Forced to think you end up coming to a conclusion.Forced to come to a conclusion you make a decision.And once you made the decision you really acts.

He saw thinking as a form of intoxication.

No two people have exactly the same view of the world. Therefore, the most important science of all is the science of perception and consciousness, which holds the key to all other sciences and which has always been of paramount importance in the traditions of the Orient.

Of course, a first-time computer user cannot map what they see on a screen to a prior digital experience. However, their cognitive processing of any digital artifact will still be based on natural language. Linguistically associating physical-world metaphors to on-screen actions and objects allows them to participate in a human-to-computer interaction.

In a computer-to-human conversation, there is less surrounding context than in a natural language. So… our cognition fails us in this quiz, and the best we can do is guess. This is why careful conceptual grammar construction is the foundation of quality IxD.

The human brain is like a memory system that records every thing that happens to us and makes intelligent predictions based on those experiences.

Gottfried Leibniz wrote that music's pleasure consisted of "unconscious counting" or an "arithmetical exercise of which we are unaware.

As one philosopher noted, the human brain is an "anticipation machine," and "making future" is the most important thing it does.

If the goal of science is to make us feel awkward and ignorant in the presence of things we once understood perfectly well, then psychology has succeeded above all others.

The trouble is that we often don't remember them correctly.

Our sense of being a conscious agent who does things comes at a cost of being technically wrong all the time.

I only mean that people find what they wish to find, and remember what they wish to remember, regardless of the evidence presented to them," Margaret said.

All you get from a circular argument is dizzy.

Mr. Shelton thought for a moment.

You must use your mind to get things off your mind.

There is no reason to ever have the same thought twice, unless you like having that thought. I

They fed him a diet made up entirely of knowledge.