Quotes About Brain

I see them in the primitive silkscreen the brain is able to produce, maybe eight inches in front of my closed eyes, miniaturised by time and distance, riddled by visual static, each figure a dancing red ribbon. These are among the people I've tried to know twice, the second time in memory and language. Through them, myself. They are what I've become, in ways I don't understand but which I believe will accrue to a rounded truth, a second life for me as well as for them.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make me proud to be an American. Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. It's like a galaxy that you can hold in your hand, only more complex, more mysterious. Why does this make you proud to be an American? The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.

I have only a bare working knowledge of the human brain but it's enough to make be proud to be an American.

Why does this make you proud to be an American?" "The infant's brain develops in response to stimuli. We still lead the world in stimuli.

In the 1980s, in writing The Design of Everyday Things, I didn't take emotions into account. I addressed utility and usability, function and form, all in a logical, dispassionate way—even though I am infuriated by poorly designed objects. But now I've changed. Why? In part because of new scientific advances in our understanding of the brain and of how emotion and cognition are thoroughly intertwined.

The traditional measures of STM capacity range from five to seven, but from a practical point of view, it is best to think of it as holding only three to five items.

three different levels of the brain: the automatic, prewired layer, called the visceral level; the part that contains the brain processes that control everyday behavior, known as the behavioral level; and the contemplative part of the brain, or the reflective level.

The visceral level is fast: it makes rapid judgments of what is good or bad, safe or dangerous, and sends appropriate signals to the muscles (the motor system) and alerts the rest of the brain.

A brain in a negative emotional state provides focus: precisely what is needed to maintain attention on a task and finish it.

Even in elementary school, I was a very assertive, aggressive kid. In the second grade I actually gave a teacher a black eye—I punched my music teacher because I didn't think he knew anything about music and I almost got expelled. I'm not proud of that, but it's clear evidence that even early on I had a tendency to stand up and make my opinions known in a very forceful way. The difference now is that I like to use my brain instead of my fists.

among the million things the brain is good at, the overriding function of the brain is to help an individual survive and thrive.

Porque al cerebro humano, sea de la región del mundo que sea, le atrae la claridad, y la confusión, en cambio, le produce rechazo.

But this poses a problem," Mike continued. "Processing information demands that the brain burn calories. And the burning of too many calories acts against the brain's primary job: to help us survive and thrive.

If it was a good movie, the experience felt like somebody was resetting a compass in my brain so I could feel what was important in life and what wasn't.

A human brain is designed to experience pleasure when it understands something and fear or resistance when it doesn't.

The more simple and predictable the communication, the easier it is for the brain to digest. Story helps because it is a sense-making mechanism.

To understand the power of a story gap is to understand what compels a human brain toward a desire.

El cerebro no sabe cómo procesar la información. Cuanto más sencilla y previsible es la comunicación, más fácilmente la procesa el cerebro. Las historias ayudan porque una historia es un mecanismo de creación de sentido. En esencia, las fórmulas basadas en el concepto de historia lo que hacen es ordenarlo todo de manera que el cerebro no tenga que esforzarse para comprender lo que está pasando.»

Story formulas reveal a well-worn path in the human brain, and if we want to stay in business, we need to position our products along this path.

the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.

Why? Because the human brain, no matter what region of the world it comes from, is drawn toward clarity and away from confusion.

I was worried that my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.

Though I would have died rather than told anyone, I was worried my exuberant drug use had damaged my brain and my nervous system and maybe even my soul in some irreparable and perhaps not readily apparent way.

disordered clumps, wrongly beautiful, like a scan of a damaged brain