Quotes About Cognition

I have a pretty good memory.

Peyton's pretty good at figuring stuff out.

I think that I try really hard to think about how we deceive ourselves, and we let ourselves be deceived.

Always, as a child, I would go around the house, and if I found a word that I didn't know the meaning of, I would write it down and ask my parents to define it and try to memorise it.

Alternative descriptions of the same reality evoke different emotions and different associations.

It may be true in the case of autism that if you start off with a deficit in terms of empathy or mind reading, you've just got more time to devote to understanding the world by systemizing.

Most Alzheimer's sufferers aren't diagnosed until their 70s. However, we now know that their brains began deteriorating long before that.

People haven't even begun to tap into the potential of what the mind is possible of doing. We only use a certain percentage of our brains.

Recalling a memory is not like playing a tape recorder. It's a creative process.

Among both individuals with high-functioning autism or Asperger and their parents, many are superfast at spotting details. You hardly have time to get the experimental materials out on the table before they've spotted the target.

He is not to pass for a man of reason who stumbles upon reason by chance but he who knows it and can judge it and has a true taste for it.

One of the series I like is D.M. Cornish's 'Monster Blood Tattoo,' in which he creates a whole language. Kids who are reading that are building a language in their heads. There's no real cognitive difference. I think kids are excited by language, and they're not always given credit for that.

You can't be taught to be brainy. You've either got it or you don't.

Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Santayana wrote, "The empiricist…thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than seeing." That

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

It's funny how humans can wrap their mind around things and fit them into their version of reality.

Sound simple? My best advice is to try it. The way the human brain works, when you write down important points, your mind-body tends to keep that information in a very secure place … and best of all, you won't forget it.

More than a popular belief, it was a delusion of the learned.

Very simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

Knowing without seeing is at the heart of chemistry.

According to research at Northwestern University (Donna Bridge, Feinberg School of Medicine), your memory of an event is not actually a memory of the event, but a recall (memory) of the last recall (memory) of the event. The more recalls, the more the memory changes, like Chinese whispers. So, you can be holding on to events that have changed over time and become even further from the past reality. And that's kind of nuts.

Our minds perform magic all the time. (p. 212)