Quotes About Brain

Around 8 percent of American gamers between ages eight and eighteen seem to meet psychiatry's diagnostic criteria for addiction; brain studies reveal changes in their neural reward system while they game that are akin to those found in alcoholics and drug abusers.

Con eso se redefine la labor esencial del líder: ayudar a la gente a alcanzar la zona cerebral donde puede dar lo mejor de sí, y a permanecer en ella.

Quando os músicos de jazz foram comparados com os músicos clássicos quanto a funções cerebrais, mostraram mais indicadores neuronais de consciência de si mesmos. Conforme disse um músico de jazz, «no jazz, é preciso sintonizarmo-nos quanto ao que o nosso corpo está a sentir, para sabermos quando avançar para um solo».

Brain studies find that having a champion athlete start pondering technique during a performance offers a sure recipe for a screwup.

Os estudos sobre o cérebro verificam que um atleta campeão começar a ponderar sobre a sua técnica durante um desempenho é receita certa para o fracasso.

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.

Neuroscientists have discovered that unproductivity and loss of drive can result from decision overload.

A big part of the problem here is that the human brain often makes up its mind based on emotional considerations, and then seeks to justify them. And the brain is a very powerful self-justifying machine.

It is impossible to tell what proportion is memory and what exists here and now—so that a strange compound is formed of memory and reality; past and present; response to stimuli stored in my brain centers, and response to stimuli in this room. It's as if all the things I've learned have fused into a crystal universe spinning before me so that I can see all the facets of it reflected in gorgeous bursts of light. . . .

If we study learning as a data science, we can reverse engineer the human brain and tailor learning techniques to maximize the chances of student success. This is the biggest revolution that could happen in education, turning it into a data-driven science, and not such a medieval set of rumors professors tend to carry on.

Mind mapping is a technique based on memory and creativity and comprehension and understanding, so when the student or a child uses the mind map, they are using their brain in the way their brain was designed to be used, and so the mind helps them in all learning and cognitive skills. It simply helps them in what the brain does naturally.

The brain is a complex biological organ of great computational capability that constructs our sensory experiences, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and control our actions.

The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild!

But as the cerebellum degrades with age, so does the quality of memories. The memories are there, but they're not as good.

Children under five are the poorest age group in America, and one in four infants, toddlers and preschoolers are poor during the years of greatest brain development.

Emotion only lasts in our bodies for about 90 seconds. After that, the physical reaction dissipates, UNLESS our cognitive brain kicks in and starts connecting our anger with past events.

Whenever thy hand can reach it, tear out the foe's brain, for such an opportunity washes anger from the mind.

After the games and idle flourishes of modern youth, we use them only as shipping cartons to transport our brains and our few employable muscles back and forth to work.

Ego is a brain function and as such mortal.

Classical works; all (of course) immeasurably superior to anything produced in later times; and all (from my present point of view) possessing the one great merit of enchaining nobody's interest, and exciting nobody's brain.

What the hammer? What the Chains? In what furnace was thy brain? Where the anvil? What dread grasp? Dare its deadly terrors clasp?

I wasn't feeling grief: that hellish chest-crammed agony you feel - but some portion of my brain activated by the memory decided to trigger the tear ducts

Curious how these early linguistic abilities are so fragile, how unthinkingly and easily the brain lets them go.

Eating the business of eating inside of you space too space and time confused Stomach saying noon brain saying eat oclock