Quotes About Cognition

without memory, man is nothing more than a bit of flesh on the planet's surface. Then they rake the grass and carry the garden furniture from the terrace to beneath the roof of the shed, they deflate the rubber dinghy that Richard hasn't tried out a

The empty look on Beans's face indicated that the answer had reached his ears, but no farther.

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered, Augustine said.

What was stored in memory was distinct from what was deliberately remembered

L'inglese e l'italiano sembrano i punti più vicini. Avendo in comune molte parole di origine latina, condividono un certo territorio. Inutile dire che mi capita spesso in italiano di incontrate una parola che conosco già grazie all'equivalente inglese. Non posso negare che la mia comprensione dell'inglese mi aiuti. Ma può ingannarmi.

That's just the way people's brains work. If you want to talk about something, you have to reduce it to a form that can be understood. That's one of the reasons I'm not good about boiling down music.

We learn more about how human brains work. And that leads us to ideas about how to make human brains work better.

Reading is an active, imaginative act; it takes work.

It's a lifetime effort, trying to understand the way our minds work, and make it work in your favor and not against you.

?omen, we think differently than guys. Guys, you know, are very visual. Women, we work a little different.

I would call an intellectual one whose instrument of work - his mind - is also his major source of pleasure; a man whose entertainment is his intelligence.

Experiments work when, and only when, they call into action cognitive capacities that might reliably deliver the conclusions drawn.

I can put two and two together, you know. Do not think you are dealing with a man who has lost his grapes.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

Studies by several different researchers have shown that the number of lies we're told each day is anywhere from 20 - 200. To many, that will seem shockingly high. Yet it isn't, in light of humans being ill-suited to detect lies. The average human can detect a lie only 54% of the time.

Humans are startlingly bad at detecting fraud. Even when we're on the lookout for signs of deception, studies show, our accuracy is hardly better than chance.

I'm someone who really thinks the game through, who has an IQ about the game, who studies the game, who knows a lot more than just running and jumping.

Epistemology is the study of knowledge. By what conduit do we know what we know?

I study people all the time. For some reason, we're not very good at seeing what's there or hearing what we're hearing.

My first memory - at about four - was of numbers. The doctors who study me think a combination of mild autism and seizures I had when I was three have made me experience numbers the way I do.

The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.

If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

One has to understand the functioning of the normal brain before studying the badly malfunctioning brain.