Quotes About Cognition

When, despite considerable intelligence, a thinker cannot think straight, it becomes very likely that he cannot face his thoughts.

Never trust anything that can think for itself if you can't see where it keeps its brain.

She was hearing the words. They just weren't registering on her Richter scale of sanity.

All appearances and sound vibrations are like an illusion, a mirage, or a reflection; They are substances without the marks of reality. The mind that cognizes illusion is also like space; Without center or boundary, it is beyond intellectual conception.

We already use catchwords as substitutes for thinking, thereby limiting our vocabulary along with the use of our brains. In

My hope is that this book will help us all make those decisions with more facts than emotions, and more awareness than fear.

Other people visualize by means of intuition or a vague sense of simply knowing something. It's

When it comes to the mental world, when we design things like health care and retirement and stock markets, we somehow forget the idea that we are limited. I think that if we understood our cognitive limitations in the same way that we understand our physical limitations … we could design a better world.

The goal is always the same: to break a skill into its component pieces (circuits), memorize those pieces individually, then link them together in progressively larger groupings (new, interconnected circuits).

There are more ways to think about experience than there are experience to think about.

as more attention is given to distinguishing between pinpoint differences in touch, sound, or sight, the area of the brain devoted to that distinction expands and, in the process, gets better at it.

But he had a problem: other psychologists had already supposedly proved that Klingberg's experiment would never work—that practice on one short-term memory task never transfers to improvement on another.

Taking it one step further, as Kabat-Zinn's voice murmured along, I realized I was not just noticing myself and my own thoughts and feelings and sensations but, in so doing, I was also observing myself observing myself. How bizarre: 3-back consciousness.

Those who worked out at least once a week performed 9.8 percent faster, solved 5.8 percent more math problems, and had 2.7 percent better spatial memory than those who never exercise.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is being very wasteful. How true that is.

What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind. How true that is.

An intellectual snob is someone who can listen to the William Tell Overture and not think of The Lone Ranger.

In short, there is a difference between asking about the property the object is experienced as having (how does the surface of a table feel differently from the surface of an ice cube?) and asking about the property of the experience of the object (what is the experiential difference between perceiving and imagining an ice cube?).

How do you know when you're getting dumber? It gets harder, and harder to tell, doesn't it?

There is in each of us a fundamental split between what we think we know and what we know but may never be able to think.

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Thinking about your ancestors makes you smarter. A research team led by Peter Fischer found that spending a few minutes contemplating your family tree (as opposed to contemplating a friend, or a shopping list, or nothing at all) significantly boosted performance on tests of cognitive intelligence. Their hypothesis is that thinking about our connections to the group increases our feelings of autonomy and control.

In a study from researchers at UCLA, the hippocampus and frontal cortex were found to be significantly larger in people who meditate regularly. Meditation has also been found to aid in weight loss, reduce muscle tension, and tighten the skin. Many people