Quotes About Cognition

It is what makes us human, what distinguishes us from other animals. We can be aware of being aware.

Our brains are already bad at seeing exponential curves.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Sometimes I'm like Dory from 'Finding Nemo.' I can't remember facts.

Words will not fail when the matter is well considered.

We're beautiful devices. The devices work well; we're all experts in what we do. But when the mechanism fails, those failures can tell you a lot about how the mind works.

Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.

Watching 'CSI: Miami' is like watching 'Teen Jeopardy!' or doing the crossword puzzle in 'People' magazine. It makes you feel smart even when you're not.

That's one of the peculiar things about bad moods - we often fool ourselves and create misery by telling ourselves things that simply are not true.

The way we have been thinking about brain science is that people show you pretty pictures, pretty images, and you think that that tells you something about how they behave. It doesn't.

The thing you realize when you get into studying neuroscience, even a little bit, is that everything is connected to everything else. So it's as if the brain is trying to use everything at its disposal - what it is seeing, what it is hearing, what is the temperature, past experience.

Imagery is not past but present. It rests with what we call our mental processes to place these images in a temporal order.

One comes to believe whatever one repeats to oneself sufficiently often, whether the statement be true of false. It comes to be dominating thought in one's mind.

Knowledge was gained by association before it was understood by explanation.

To fool somebody else, you have to fool yourself first.

All thought is a feat of association; having what's in front of you bring up something in your mind that you almost didn't know you knew.

Thinking Fast and Slow.

shoveling food into his mouth. Thoughts came fluently, cogently:

Nothing is real for me until I've read about it.

Anyone who cannot cope with mathematics is not fully human. At best he is a tolerable subhuman who has learned to wear shoes, bathe, and not make messes in the house.

There are mighty few people who think what they think they think.

The ability to focus attention on important things is a defining characteristic of intelligence.

read faster and better is the understanding of a text, because the brain has less time for distractions.

the maps are a very effective tool because it uses both hemispheres of the brain thanks to colors and keywords.