Quotes About Cognition

While one man can discover a certain thing by himself, another is never able to understand it, even if taught by means of all possible expressions and metaphors, and during a long period; his mind can in no way grasp it, his capacity is insufficient for it.

I think dissonance in music makes you think. It isn't, 'Oh, that's a pretty melody I can whistle.' You have to sit down and listen to tell it apart from other things.

Both expectations and memories are more than mere images founded on previous experience.

Obviously the facts are never just coming at you but are incorporated by an imagination that is formed by your previous experience. Memories of the past are not memories of facts but memories of your imaginings of the facts.

The priceless galaxy of misinformation called the mind.

Prediction is not just one of the things your brain does. It is the primary function of the neo-cortex, and the foundation of intelligence.

The brains of humans contain a mechanism that is designed to give priority to bad news.

I always knew how privileged I was to think for a living.

I like the cerebral process.

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

Because all the thought processes are limited, they are conditioned, and the thought does not touch directly with the reality, the truth; thoughts only grasps at the image of the truth.

I think that kids have a greater capacity for processing things than we give them credit for.

Everyone knows it's dangerous to ingest gasoline or to inhale its fumes. But I am starting to believe that merely thinking about the price of gasoline can damage cognitive processing.

Some people say they use images to help them remember intricacies. Others say they just remember. If they are able to form an image of the face, it is because they remember how it was: it is not that an image guides memory, but that memory produces an image, or the sense of imaging. We have no agreed way to talk clearly about such things.

Knowing and assuming are two different things.

I think every player thinks in a different way.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

I guess different brains work in different ways.

I am a stupendously fast reader and always have been. I can read in at least three languages fluently and two languages with a little bit more difficulty.

I don't digest things with my mind.

I am particularly interested in Alzheimer's disease and have been for some time now.

The list of fun and easily-fixed brain diseases is very short.

I've got a really amazing ability to forget and disregard information that comes in my brain.

With Magic Leap, your brain doesn't distinguish what's real and what's Magic Leap. Because as far as your brain's concerned, it is real.