Alissa Quart Quotes

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored - it's all fascinating.

I've just always sort of been mesmerized by our minds and how people think and how people react differently.

We cannot study the brain, the instrument for fabricating the realities we inhabit, using the mental constructs of the past.

Lulled in the countless chambers of the brain, our thoughts are linked by many a hidden chain; awake but one, and in, what myriads rise!

Many Nobel Prizes are awaiting good research to understand and explain the many mysteries of our bodies, such as the basic mechanism of memory or imagination.

My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.

We will move from looking at correlations between brain activity and behaviour to studying how the brain causes mental states and behaviour.

Your brain is built of cells called neurons and glia - hundreds of billions of them. Each one of these cells is as complicated as a city.

All the different ways we know the world all come from the brain, and they all depend on each other to make sense.

All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain.

We are a complex species to observe.

There are cognitive processes and limbic reactions associated with basic emotions. And you can change brain chemistry, but you're still not going to change memories and experiences in a human being.

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 needs to have a story; it needs to have a logical screenplay telling where we're coming from and what we're going to.

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

Although surgeons know how to deal with bits of the brain, they don't really know how it works.

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

We're told that when we remember, the same parts of our brain light up as when we experienced the event we're remembering. Your brain lives through it again.

The cause-effect sequences in our brains are just as determining, just as inescapable, as anywhere else in Nature.

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

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?

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.

There are so many intricacies to our brain that won't be understood unless we start to look at the system as a whole. All these different details don't operate in isolation.

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