Dannel Malloy Quotes

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

The connections in the brain fade away unless used. We know that early stimulation of children leads to higher cognitive scores.

The human brain starts working the moment you are born and never stops until you stand up to speak in public.

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

All of imagination - everything that we think, we feel, we sense - comes through the human brain. And once we create new patterns in this brain, once we shape the brain in a new way, it never returns to its original shape.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

The brain sure as hell doesn't work by somebody programming in rules.

The brain is plastic its whole life span.

There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.

The human brain is by no means fully formed at birth. It continues to shape itself through life, with the most intense growth occurring during childhood.

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

Everything we do, every thought we've ever had, is produced by the human brain. But exactly how it operates remains one of the biggest unsolved mysteries, and it seems the more we probe its secrets, the more surprises we find.

It is imperfection - not perfection - that is the end result of the program written into that formidably complex engine that is the human brain, and of the influences exerted upon us by the environment and whoever takes care of us during the long years of our physical, psychological and intellectual development.

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

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.

It is literally the case that learning languages makes you smarter. The neural networks in the brain strengthen as a result of language learning.

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

The actual organization of behavior goes on the level of the individual nerve cells and their connections, and we have a hundred billion nerve cells, probably a hundred trillion connections. It's just mind-boggling to think of all the different ways in which they're arranged in a baby's head.

There's a lot of real estate in our brain dedicated to facial recognition and to physics. That takes a lot of processing power out of our brain.

The brain is the cornerstone of virtually every facet of our lives. I wish we knew more.

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.

Many cognitive psychologists see the brain as a computer. But every single brain is absolutely individual, both in its development and in the way it encounters the world.

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

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