Quotes About Cognition

Deficits in mentalizing have also been linked with identity diffusion

Things are going round and round in my head--or maybe my head is going round and round in things.

impairment in executive function may be the most disabling result of having an autism spectrum condition because of its negative impact on life outcome.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

A fogged brain puts everyone in danger.

An individual's reality model can be right or wrong, complete or incomplete. As a rule it will be both incomplete and wrong...

Remember, the more you exercise the brain, the fitter it becomes.

They are association, location, and imagination.

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The brain is the hungriest organ in the body, with a metabolic rate sixteen times that of muscle tissue per unit weight. In modern humans, it accounts for 20 to 25 percent of an adult's energy needs.

as Einstein put it 'Time and space are modes by which we think, and not conditions in which we live.

Steven Pinker sums up the argument well: "We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness."36

In the last 20,000 years, our brains have shrunk 10 percent—from 1,500 cubic centimeters down to 1,350—a loss of the volume of a tennis ball.

Steven Pinker sums up the argument well: "We are organisms, not angels, and our minds are organs, not pipelines to the truth. Our minds evolved by natural selection to solve problems that were life-and-death matters to our ancestors, not to commune with correctness.

That was the annoying thing about the kid, who was otherwise okay. Every once in a while, he'd get it before anybody else got it, and when he got it, he got it. So Tiny said to him, "If you got it, give it to us.

The conscious life of the mind is of small importance in comparison with its unconscious life.

If you want to live a memorable life, you have to be the kind of person who remembers to remember.

No thought lives in your head rent-free.

To perceive is to suffer.

"No thought lives in your head rent-free." Each thought you have will either be an investment or a cost.

So how, children, does the brain, which lives without a spark of light, build for us a world full of light?

Flora sighed. It was curious that persons who lived what the novelists called a rich emotional life always seemed to be a bit slow on the uptake.

To understand what a person means or says, it's basically necessary to already know what that person means or is saying.

I stopped speaking when I realized I was no longer using any verbs or nouns, or making any sense