Quotes About Cognition

Hogs and pigs are very intelligent.

I've always loved pigs: the shape of them, the look of them, and the fact that they are so intelligent.

My parents told me I'd point to a bed of flowers and say 'Pink. Pretty,' before I knew any other words.

We've learned that musical ability is actually not one ability but a set of abilities, a dozen or more. Through brain damage, you can lose one component and not necessarily lose the others. You can lose rhythm and retain pitch, for example, that kind of thing.

I was not a student of Wall Street, but I was a quick study.

You know how they say that old people with Alzheimer's, they kind of go back, and they revert to the most emotional part of their life, what they did when they were younger... I think I am going to be cursed with reliving 'Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope' in my mind. And playing 'Dragon's Layer' when I enter Alzheimer's.

I'm a visual thinker. Research tells us that only 20 per cent of people think visually. So what about the other 80 per cent? Don't they think in pictures? I mean if you imagine washing and preparing potatoes you visualise the process, right?

Researchers say that sketching helps extend the memory. That these throwaway scribblings "reduce the burden we experience" as we're trying to remember something or solve a problem.

You're mental. I always knew you were.

i have no mind/just a series of clicks

three degrees in the intelligence of mankind. To the first belong those who understand things for themselves by virtue of their own natural endowments; to the second those who have at least the wit to discern what others understand; and to the third those who neither understand things for themselves nor yet through the demonstrations which others afford them.

You often show yourself without any faculty of deductive reasoning.

My mouth keeps forgetting what my head has learned.

Thoughts come into our minds by avenues which we never left open, and thoughts go out of our minds through avenues which we never voluntarily opened.

To think is to act.

What is the hardest thing in the world To think.

The problem is not that Women think, the problem is that they think that they THINK!

It did something to the temporal lobe, one of the circuits involved in religious experience. It was supposed to put people closer to God. It did that. It also made them slaves.

The evolution of language marked a great leap forward for our species. It boosted our cognitive abilities by webbing us together into larger, more powerful group minds. I believe that another quantum step in human cognition awaits us on the other side of direct linkage of our brains and minds to one another." - Somdet Phra Ananda

I just don't know what I'd do without a brain, Simone!" I say. "I mean, what's a person without one?

Mood allocates] investments of time, effort, resources, and risk taking to maximize Darwinian fitness in situations of varying propitiousness. High and low moods adjust cognition and behavior to cope with propitious and unpropitious situations.

The reason we remember song lyrics more easily than poetry is that music is stored in the cleaner, mathematical side of our brains. Poetry is shoveled into the cluttered, creative side.

Games that fail to exercise the brain become boring.

Our perception of reality is basically abstraction