Barbara de Angelis Quotes

Emotional life grows out of an area of the brain called the limbic system, specifically the amygdala, whence come delight and disgust and fear and anger.

One of the ultimate challenges for biology is to understand the brain's processing of unconscious and conscious perception, emotion, and empathy.

Experiences shape the brain, but the brain shapes the way we view experiences, too.

Remember that feelings or emotions emanate from the more ancient, less evolved, lower part of the human brain, while thoughts are a product of our highly evolved, uniquely human, outer part of the brain.

There is zero correlation between IQ and emotional empathy... They're controlled by different parts of the brain.

Our bodies are hanging along for the ride, but my brain is talking to your brain. And if we want to understand who we are and how we feel and perceive, we really understand what brains are.

The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.

When we talk about the brain, it is anything but unidimensional or simplistic or reductionistic.

The human brain works in, so far, mysterious and wondrous ways that are completely different than the ways that computers calculate. Things like appetite or emotion, how do those function in the brain?

Mediums change you by their very existence. They do this on fundamental levels because they force you to favour certain parts of your brain over others.

Our brain is the factory of the emotions

Love not only occupies the higher lobes of the brain, but crowds out the lower to make room for its expansion.

We pretend that the brain is binary, like a computer. But it's not. It's completely holographic.

I find the function of the brain incredibly fascinating, and it's like trying to crack the toughest, most complicated problem there is.

As someone who was basically a software engineer for many years, I became fascinated with how the brain functions and is put together and works in such a different fashion than computers do.

As a programmer, you're working with very simple structures compared to the brain. So I was always fascinated by how the brain works.

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

Your brain is so lovely and so willing to please. It wants to help so much.

This is a generalization, but I think women's brains are more accessible to ideas and differences. And they can accept stuff that's weirder. I think there are enough intelligent men out there who get it, but women will watch behavior that's different and process it better. In general, women are less threatened by their emotions.

It could be - and it has been argued, in my view rather plausibly, though neuroscientists don't like it - that neuroscience for the last couple hundred years has been on the wrong track.

We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens in the middle is poorly understood.

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

From my first published paper in 1946, my obsession has been to objectify inner experiences, to demystify the software of human existence. How? By relating changes in external behavior, systematically and lawfully, to changes in the brain.

The brain is one of the richest green fields of science. There's so much yet to be discovered.

I talked to a brain specialist who told me when you think like someone else for such a long time, your brain actually changes.