Cognitive Neuroscience Quotes

#1. When it comes to exploring the mind in the framework of cognitive neuroscience, the maximal yield of data comes from integrating what a person experiences - the first person - with what the measurements show - the third person.

Daniel Goleman

#2. There is a fine line deep within the mind that makes self-belief and confidence, the defining elements of success and failure in any circumstance. How we learn to activate them without running the risk of lying to ourselves is the key that unlocks the superhuman lying dormant within us.

David Amerland

#3. The hormonal interplay inside a woman's head creates her reality. Her hormones tell her day to day what's important. They mold her desires and values.

Abhijit Naskar

#4. Actually, I think my view is compatible with much of the work going on now in neuroscience and psychology, where people are studying the relationship of consciousness to neural and cognitive processes without really trying to reduce it to those processes.

David Chalmers

#5. Mr. Darcy said very little, and Mr. Hurst nothing at all. The former was divided between admiration of the brilliancy which exercise had given to her complexion, and doubt as to the occasion's justifying her coming so far alone. The latter was thinking only of his breakfast.

Jane Austen

#6. A healthy PFC means a healthy cognitive grip over the world with very little elements of prejudice.

Abhijit Naskar

#7. To construct is the essence of vision. Dispense with
construction and you dispense with vision. Everything you experience by sight is your construction.

Donald D. Hoffman

#8. I see psychoanalysis, art and biology ultimately coming together, just like cognitive psychology and neuroscience have merged.

Eric Kandel

#9. I wondered if there was a way to teach people how to use their imaginations in prayer and worship. So I began reading books on cognitive therapy and neuroscience and started studying the devotional traditions of the church.

Gregory A. Boyd

#10. Cognitive psychologists have long suggested that people fit into different learning styles, yet neuroscience does not support this notion (Sousa & Tomlinson, 2011).

Gayle Gregory

#11. It is not about whether you have free will, rather it is about whether you have enough experience to make the best possible wilful decision in the current moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#12. Pathology can indeed cause experiences of the Kingdom of God, but not all God experiences are caused by pathology.

Abhijit Naskar

#13. The brain works in a holistic, cooperative way that makes our basest desire or most abject fear as expressive of who we are as abstract thinking of the highest order. That means that we are all equal part snakes, monkeys, and spacemen.

David Amerland

#14. Sexual thoughts float through a man's brain many times a day, while on the contrary a woman has them only one to four times a day.

Abhijit Naskar

#15. The people who control this country are the real gangsters. You know that, right? And if you play by their rules, you're nothing but their slave.

Dan Chaon

#16. Any man could, if he were so inclined, be the sculptor of his own brain.

Santiago Ramon Y Cajal

#17. Once you have a child, you change so much along the way, you don't even recognize yourself by the time they're ready to move out!

Ron Taffel

#18. In every walk of life, you do have the freedom to choose, but that freedom is based on the perception of the world and yourself which you have gained until that moment of life.

Abhijit Naskar

#19. Physiology and Psychology are not at all separate from each other. Rather they are deeply intertwined.

Abhijit Naskar

#20. Do you know what integration really means? It means intermarriage. That's the real point behind it. You can't have it without intermarriage. And that would result in disintegration of both races.

Malcolm X

#21. The causal, abstract, binary, holistic, and reductionist functions of the human brain all help you to process the enormous amount of information coming into our brain from the external world every day.

Abhijit Naskar

#22. It may seem demeaning to the vanity of some individuals, but like all elements of the mind, God and all its correlated sensations of divinity are the majestic creations of neurobiology.

Abhijit Naskar

#23. The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the brain generates creativity, we will see that it is not a rational process at all; creativity is not born out of reasoning.

Rodolfo R. Llinas

#24. If there are no roads you can walk, break down the walls!

Yoshiki Nakamura

#25. Humanity has pondered over the meaning of God since its beginning. It is one of those cognitive features that came along with the advent of modern Human Consciousness.

Abhijit Naskar