Robert Barany Quotes

I'm so uncoordinated.

Abundance and vigor of automatic movements are desirable, and even a considerable degree of restlessness is a good sign in young children.

Much more of the brain is devoted to movement than to language. Language is only a little thing sitting on top of this huge ocean of movement.

On the one hand, there are individual actions such as throwing, pushing, touching, rubbing. It is these individual actions that give rise most of the time to abstraction from objects.

I flailed my arm in a throwing motion before I could even walk.

I'm no good at really anything that involves motor skills.

There is an adage in neuroscience that circuits that wire together fire together. By engaging the brain and spinal cord together, we may be able to enhancce teh growth of [brain] circuits during rehabilitation.

We only have our nervous system to paint.

We can only know in the nervous system what we have known in behavior first.

The brain is not an organ we are authorized to use. We are supposed to use only our hands and legs.

Anticipation of movement, through muscular innervation and memory, by its retention of nerve impulse images, extend the present to the limit of a second or so.

Exact information about the functional significance of the deep sections of the brain is only obtained by working through the brain histologically in serial section.

The kind of neuroscience that I do and my colleagues do is almost like the weatherman. We are always chasing storms. We want to see and measure storms - brainstorms, that is.

If you put a baseball and other toys in front of a baby, he'll pick up a baseball in preference to the others.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. There is no reason to believe there is any magic going on.

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'

The brain is hugely complicated, and because it is so complicated, it requires multidisciplinary research.

We evolved to move and to learn with all our five senses!

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

The brain is a complex biological organ possessing immense computational capability: it constructs our sensory experience, regulates our thoughts and emotions, and controls our actions.

It was quite difficult to find a place to do what we wanted, namely to study the neurological basis of behaviour and especially learning and memory, which we were particularly interested in.

To find better means of fixing the brain, we first need to achieve something more fundamental. We must understand how it works.

I was interested in the nature of human mental processes, which is what got me interested in psychoanalysis. And it became clear to me after a while that mental processes come from the brain, and in order to understand them, you need to be a biologist of the brain.

I don't know about you, but I find it exhilarating to see how vague psychological notions evaporate and give rise to a physical, mechanistic understanding of the mind, even if it's the mind of the fly.

I think that I cannot immediately see the route by which we should really understand memory and the workings of the brain.