Quotes About Brain waves

Experiments show that when you move your wrist at will, you consciously experience the decision to move it about 0.2 seconds before the actual movement (Libet, 1985, 2004).But your brain waves jump about 0.35 seconds before you consciously perceive your decision to move (FIGURE 3.4)! The startling conclusion: Consciousness sometimes arrives late to the decision-making party.

His classes... had committed mutiny. The simplest, most innocent concepts turned overnight into enemies, capable of triggering full system shutdown. Light is not light but energy. A person will never see his own face, just its reflection, or a photograph of it. Brain waves are more active during dreams than waking life. Roses don't smell beautiful; they smell like ripe fruit, which is good for survival, and so they're defined as beautiful in our aesthetic beliefs.

That bastard's brain waves had infiltrated my scrotum, reconnecting my vas deferens

La idea de que el sueño puede acortarse es un mito. Desde la perspectiva del cerebro, dormir seis horas a la semana es una pérdida permanente. No se puede compensar durmiendo el fin de semana. Levantarse con la alarma de un despertador también es perjudicial. En condiciones naturales, el cerebro sale del sueño profundo en una serie de oleadas que lo llevan cada vez más cerca de la vigilia.

Hey, what do you think drives all this grey matter up here Electricity. It's brain waves surfing on synaptic junctions. If your radio can go out because of sun spots, why can't your cerebellum It's all a matter of reception and it seems to me these signals are going to get crossed somehow. It's all logical.

Since so much of the physical universe, from brain waves to quantum waves, relies upon travelling waves we appreciate the key role played by the dimensionality of our space in rendering its contents intelligible to us.

However brief my dolphin visitation had been, it was stuck to me, lodged inside my head. It was as though I'd been hit by lightning and that one strike had zapped clean through my brain, replacing its usual patterns and wavelengths and nerve impulses with a dolphin highlight reel.

People with a fixed mindset were only interested when the feedback reflected on their ability. Their brain waves showed them paying close attention when they were told whether their answers were right or wrong.

The brain waves of ordinary people during insight experiences are unique. Their brains are in special states.

Other studies have measured the electrical activity in brain waves to explore differences in the processing of language input. Some of this research has shown that as an L2 learner's proficiency increases, the brain activity looks more like that of first language processing.