Quotes About Cognition

Intelligence consists not in handling intelligent ideas, but in handling any idea intelligently.

Feeling creates thought, men willingly agree; but they will not so willingly agree that thought creates feeling, though this is scarcely less true.

Bower found that unhappy people recalled details of a sad story better than those who were happy when they read it.

Psychology is the scientific study of the mind and behaviour of humans and animals.

Your mind has what you might call an automatic search function, which means that when you ask yourself a question, your mind automatically begins to search for an answer.

We thus make a fundamental distinction between the competence (the speaker-hearer's knowledge of his language) and performance (the actual use of language in concrete situations).

I have a memory like an elephant. In fact, elephants often consult me.

It was not the first time - it was far from the firs time - that Damask had suspected that there was something queer, something quite out of the ordinary about her mind. Most people had minds which dealt with one thought, and then another, one at a time. Hers very often dealt with two, even three, all at the same time." Damask Greenway from Afternoon of an Autocrat

Thoughts walk in uninvited

All of us have worries. We worry because we are intelligent beings. Intelligence predicts, that is its essence; the same intelligence that allows us to plan, hope, imagine, and hypothesize also allows us to worry and anticipate negative outcomes.

We see with our brains, not with our eyes,

REM sleep has also been shown to be particularly important for enhancing our ability to retain emotional memories and for allowing the hippocampus to turn short-term memories of the day before into long-term ones (i.e., it helps make memories more permanent, leading to structural change in the brain).

We often praise "the ability to multitask." While you can learn when you divide your attention, divided attention doesn't lead to abiding change in your brain maps.

He also discovered that when he touched certain parts of the brain, he triggered long-lost childhood memories or dreamlike scenes—which implied that higher mental activities were also mapped in the brain.

Every time the brain is used, four components are triggered: motor movement, thought, sensation, and feeling. Under normal circumstances, we don't experience one without the other three.*

children learn their experience; they don't necessarily learn what we intend them to.")

But brain maps for the fingers, often used in precise ways, are huge.

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Posit Science,

All there is to thinking is seeing something noticeable which makes you see something you weren't noticing which makes you see something that isn't even visible.

Neden baz? insanlar, baz? ?eyleri hiç bilmiyorlar? Duysalar, dinleseler, hatta kar??lar?nda görseler bile bilmiyorlar.

?nsan beyninin böyle farkl? güçte olmas?, birinin yazd???n?, ötekinin okuyacak kadar bile bir zekâya sahip olmamas? çok üzücü.

?nsan? ancak haf?za kurtarabilir.

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike. But your denial doesn't matter.