Floyd Skloot Quotes

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.

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

I do love the way the brain looks. I love the way it's shaped.

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

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

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

When looking at the brain, it is important to go beyond its structure to its function. This is because often in cognitive disorders, the structure of the brain is intact, but its function is compromised.

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

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

Neuroscience is a baby science, a mere century old, and our scientific understanding of the brain is nowhere near where we'd like it to be. We know more about the moons of Jupiter than what is inside of our skulls.

Your brain does not manufacture thoughts. Your thoughts shape neural networks.

The brain, is the most complex thing we have yet discovered in our universe.

Neuroscientists talk a lot about brain circuits. In fact, the word 'circuit' is probably misleading. We do not know where most circuits begin and end. And unlike an electrical circuit, brain connections are heavily reciprocal and recursive, so that a direction of information flow can be inferred but sometimes not proven.

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.

What we find is that our brains have colossal things happening in them all the time.

Some scholars argue that although the brain might contain neural subsystems, or modules, specialized for tasks like recognizing faces and understanding language, it also contains a part that constitutes a person, a self: the chief executive of all the subsystems.

You have two hemispheres in your brain - a left and a right side. The left side controls the right side of your body and right controls the left half. It's a fact. Therefore, left-handers are the only people in their right minds.

Every time I am looking into the depths of somebody's brain, I'm thinking, 'This is what makes a person who they are. That structure contains memories. Everything that they've ever experienced is right in there.'

I think most people are inherently interested in how their brain works, in what makes them tick.

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.