Cognitive Functioning Quotes

As work in neurosciences indicates, the acquisition of literacy necessitated a new circuit in our species' brain more than 6,000 years ago. That circuit evolved from a very simple mechanism for decoding basic information, like the number of goats in one's herd, to the present, highly elaborated reading brain.

I thought you were sane," I said, "but you're just as crazy as the rest of them.

Living most of the time in a world created mostly in one's head, does not make for an easy passage in the real world.

Three-dimensional results are important to me. I did once spend some time just writing, and floating around, and I lost my mind a little bit. I wasn't so good at that.

A lot of the time I'm semi-insane, but there is a slight bit of intelligence there.

What does it matter where my body happens to be?' he said. 'My mind goes on working all the same.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

The individual can maintain himself in a society definitely organized only through possessing an equally definite mental and moral constitution. This is what the neuropath lacks. His state of disturbance causes him to be constantly taken by surprise by circumstances.

We take so much for granted; we can't imagine life without our five senses. I sometimes would wonder what it would be like if I suddenly couldn't see one day.

My laziness is really profound. I'm really interested in where it comes from - it almost feels chemical. And we've all got ADD now, short attention span and all that.

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

I have ideas whirring around my head all the time.

The cognitive functioning of a human brain depends on a delicate orchestration of many factors, especially during the critical stages of embryo development-and it is much more likely that this self-organizing structure, to be enhanced, needs to be carefully balanced, tuned, and cultivated rather than simply flooded with some extraneous potion.

My mental state is perfectly fine.

I definitely have some kind of mental problem and I haven't pinpointed what it is.

Like all science, psychology is knowledge; and like science again, it is knowledge of a definite thing, the mind.

In short, herein seems to lie the difference between idiots and madmen, that madmen put wrong ideas together, and so make wrong propositions, but argue and reason right from them: but idiots make very few or no propositions, and reason scarce at all.

I know why we're here. We're all here because we're not all there.

I go through my day remembering things like telephone cords.

I've got no attention span.

People have said I have brain damage, but I've passed all of my physicals, all of my medicals. They've checked my head so many times it's crazy.

It's so internalized, the way your mind works in relation to anything - it's a process, but then it isn't. It's working all the time.

I can't remember a 'best gig,' and my brain doesn't work in absolute terms like that.

Oh, these people's minds work in strange ways, Petunia, they're not like you and me," said Uncle Vernon, trying to knock in a nail with the piece of fruitcake Aunt Petunia had just brought him.

We don't remember everything that happens to us on a given day: sometimes, we remember something simply because it's emotional, while, at other times, we work our way through mundane details to figure out why something matters.