Quotes About Cognition

This is a great tool for students as the book gets right to the heart of learning how to learn and engaging your whole brain.

The more senses recruited at the moment of learning, the more likely you are to recall it later.

I don't know what's the matter with people: they don't learn by understanding, they learn by some other way — by rote or something. Their knowledge is so fragile!

.....the research on the brain does not validate that we are singularly processing input or learning with a single sensory input.

The tools we use have a profound and devious influence on our thinking habits, and therefore on our thinking abilities.

Try fighting with your head for a change... it's a good one, even if it does resist learning.

He not only overflowed with learning, but stood in the slop.

We hear and apprehend only what we already half know.

Just as physical exercise is a well-known and well-accepted means to improve health for anyone, regardless of age or background, so can the brain be put 'into shape' for optimal learning.

Learning a language represents training in the delusions of that language.

We ought to learn from the kine one thing: ruminating.

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

Intelligence is what you use when you don't know what to do: when neither innateness nor learning has prepared you for the particular situation.

Being able to "go beyond the information" given to "figure things out" is one of the few untarnishable joys of life.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Because our minds process information almost solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category and lies outside of the realm of our analogies.

Because our minds process information solely through analogy and categorization, we are often defeated when presented with something that fits no category.

That was when Leonard realized something crucial about depression. The smarter you were, the worse it was. The sharper your brain, the more it cut you up.

There are a lot of obstacles in the way of our understanding animal intelligence - not the least being that we can't even agree whether nonhuman species are conscious. We accept that chimps and dolphins experience awareness we like to think dogs and cats do. But what about mice and newts? What about a fly? Is anything going on there at all?

Learning to speak was the most remarkable thing you ever did.

The mind of the polyglot is a very particular thing, and scientists are only beginning to look closely at how acquiring a second language influences learning, behavior and the very structure of the brain itself.

although most people believe they can reliably discern when they are being lied to, the evidence suggests that they can't.

The girls may have only been ages six to eight, but they could spot a hottie when they saw one.

Something weird happens to your brain. This brain has served you well for so long, but it starts punking you. You can't remember directions, you forget why you walked into a room, and for the life of you, you can't recall your third kid's name (