Quotes About Cognition

Yes," he said, "intelligence does enable you to deny facts you dislike.

Listen, no part of me is more definitive of who I am than my brain.

Most Humans lose access to old memories as they acquire new ones. They know how to speak, for instance, but they don't recall learning to speak. They keep what experience has taught them—usually—but lose the experience itself. We

Every act of perception, is to some degree an act of creation, and every act of memory is to some degree an act of imagination.

We speak not only to tell other people what we think, but to tell ourselves what we think. Speech is a part of thought.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.

To know is not less than to feel.

Memory, then, is a necessary part of the logical faculty. … The proposition A = A must have a psychological relation to time, otherwise it would be At1 = At2.

Dogs never have any difficulty in remembering the slightest event or the lightest word that has ever occurred or was ever spoken in their presence. Our power of memory is something marvelous

He had just about enough intelligence to open his mouth when he wanted to eat, but certainly no more.

If he had a mind, there was something on it.

there's no such thing as an idle thought and that all of us are way too cavalier and tolerant of our minds' wandering.

The ability to remember names peaks, on average, in your early twenties.)

Let us repeat. The memory of the present is juxtaposed to the perception of the present.

Let reason alone decide

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

Do you see?" "Sort of," she said, and she frowned hard to make her head work better.

Top-down cortically mediated techniques typically use cognition to regulate affect and sensorimotor experience, focusing on meaning making and understanding. The entry point is the story, and the formulation of a coherent narrative is of prime importance. A linguistic sense of self is fostered this process, and experience changes through understanding

What this tells me is that facts are only the smallest components of memory.

Estas fluctuaciones mentales se caracterizan por el placer y el dolor, y así parece que la conciencia experimente placer y dolor, cuando en realidad el placer y el dolor son propiedades de la mente y no de la conciencia.

That the mental experiences of dogs aren't as complex as ours is no reason to dismiss those experiences altogether.

It was complicated. I understood it, mostly, but I had to think a little sideways to do it.

The mind of the man and the mind of the woman is the same, but this business of living makes women use their minds in ways that men don't even have to think about.

When babies listen, what they're doing is taking statistics on the language that they hear.