Quotes About Brain

When we hear a fact, a few isolated areas of our brain light up, translating words and meanings. When we hear a story, however, our brain lights up like Las Vegas, tracing the chains of cause, effect, and meaning. Stories are not just stories; they are the best invention ever created for delivering mental models that drive behavior.

The neocortex allows for the subtlety and complexity of emotional life, such as the ability to have feelings about our feelings.

Emotional resilience comes down to how quickly we recover from upsets. People who are highly resilient—who bounce back right away—can have as much as thirty times more activation in the left prefrontal area than those who are less resilient.

Experience, particularly in childhood, sculpts the brain. The

26. Kieran C. R. Fox, "Is Meditation Associated with Altered Brain Structure? A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Morphometric Neuroimaging in Meditation Practitioners," Neuroscience and Biobehavioral Reviews 43 (2014): 48–73.

the workings of the amygdala and its interplay with the neocortex are at the heart of emotional intelligence.

The hippocampus is crucial in recognizing a face as that of your cousin. But it is the amygdala that adds you don't really like her.

Among the main biological changes in happiness is an increased activity in a brain center that inhibits negative feelings and fosters an increase in available energy, and a quieting of those that generate worrisome thought.

His research has shown that sensory signals from eye or ear travel first in the brain to the thalamus, and then—across a single synapse—to the amygdala; a second signal from the thalamus is routed to the neocortex—the thinking brain.

Our journey begins in Part One with new discoveries about the brain's emotional architecture that offer an explanation of those most baffling moments in our lives when feeling overwhelms all rationality. Understanding the interplay of brain structures that rule our moments of rage and fear—or passion and joy—reveals

emotional and rational minds are semi-independent faculties, each, as we shall see, reflecting the operation of distinct, but interconnected, circuitry in the brain.

They concluded that the brain's default activity—what happens automatically when nothing much else goes on—seems to be mulling over our relationships.18

largo de un proceso conocido con el nombre de «podado», el cerebro va perdiendo las conexiones neuronales menos frecuentadas y fortaleciendo aquellos circuitos sinápticos más utilizados. De este modo, el «podado», al eliminar las sinapsis menos utilizadas, mejora la relación señal/ruido del cerebro extirpando la causa misma del «ruido».

A mais antiga raiz de nossa vida emocional está no sentido do olfato, ou, mais precisamente, no lobo olfativo, células que absorvem e analisam o cheiro.

humans the prefrontal cortex takes up a larger ratio of the brain's top layer, the neocortex, than in any other species, and has been the site of the major evolutionary changes that make us human. This neural zone, as we will see, holds the seeds of awakening to enduring well-being, but it is also entwined with emotional suffering. We can envision wonderful possibilities, and we also can be disturbed by worrisome

But the brain's executive center, located behind the forehead in our prefrontal cortex, gives us both a unique advantage among all animals and a paradoxical disadvantage: the ability to anticipate the future—and worry about it—as well as to think about the past—and regret.

los adultos con TDA presentan una elevada tasa de pensamiento original y mayores logros creativos.

Quando a nossa mente vagueia, o nosso cérebro ativa um conjunto de circuitos cerebrais que tagarelam sobre coisas que não têm nada que ver com aquilo que estamos a tentar aprender. Na ausência de foco, nenhuma nova recordação daquilo que aprendemos é armazenada.

The fact that the thinking brain grew from the emotional reveals much about the relationship of thought to feeling; there was an emotional brain long before there was a rational one.

Tania Singer, director of the social neuroscience department at the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, Germany, has studied empathy and self-awareness

el neocórtex puede aprender a inhibir el funcionamiento de la amígdala.

Only of late have the scientific data reached critical mass, confirming what our intuition and the texts told us: these deep changes are external signs of strikingly different brain function.

Such heuristics determine whether a flood of data offers up a "Eureka!" or we suffer from information overload. That decision (Got it! versus Too much information) emanates from a thin strip in the brain's prefrontal area, the dorsolateral circuits.

The brain uses a simple but cunning method to make emotional memories register with special potency: the very same neurochemical alerting systems that prime the body to react to life-threatening emergencies by fighting or fleeing also stamp the moment in memory with vividness.