Faith Salie Quotes

I have an old brain but a terrific memory.

My brain- the older I get, it holds even less. There's not the capacity I would wish there to be.

My brain is like a hard drive. Once you start adding new information, you start cutting off old information.

People talk about the brain weakening as it ages. Mine feels stronger.

There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.

They say that your powers of memory are at their peak when you're 26, and it's all downhill after that.

I believe that if your brain has to get to grips with complicated words, then you won't get Alzheimer's. I'm sure it's not true, but I do believe it.

With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system.

Memory in youth is active and easily impressible; in old age it is comparatively callous to new impressions, but still retains vividly those of earlier years.

My memory's pretty much gone.

The amount of sensory material stored up or stored down in the brain's and the body's systems is inestimable. It's like a culture at the bottom of a jar, although it doesn't grow, I think, or help anything else to grow unless you find a way to reach it and touch it.

Our brains have the ability to reorganize themselves by forming new neural connections throughout our lives. This ability is called neuroplasticity.

It's obvious that my brain isn't what it used to be.

Your brain - every brain - is a work in progress. It is 'plastic.' From the day we're born to the day we die, it continuously revises and remodels, improving or slowly declining, as a function of how we use it.

Now, we used to think the brain was like a computer. But now, we realize that's not true. There's no programming of the brain. There's no Windows. And we think the brain is more like a large corporation. Because think of the unconscious mind. In a corporation, you have subdivisions which operate independently of the main office.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Boy, you know, it's amazing how your brain can turn into a sieve, and you can literally forget episodes that you have shot.

My memory is not even what most people's is, much less what it oughta be for a discussion like this.

When I need names they drop out of my head; when I don't need them they drop back.

Neuroplasticity research showed that the brain changes its very structure with each different activity it performs, perfecting its circuits so it is better suited to the task at hand.

The early development of the human brain is extremely important for setting the table, if you will, for potential future accomplishment.

I watch people get older and lose their intellectual acuity; you lose that sharpness, that cleanness, that brain that you worked so hard on and that you were gifted with and lose the gifts that were given.

In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable of generating behaviors and, ultimately, thinking. Instead, the true functional unit of the central nervous system is a population of neurons, or neural ensembles or cell assemblies.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

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