Cognitive Learning Quotes

I can explain how a person with autism thinks. I am very, very interested in how people think. It's been a gradual process of learning more and more about how my thinking process is different. You know it's bottom up - you take specific examples to make concepts and then I put them in categories.

We learn words by rote, but not their meaning; that must be paid for with our life-blood, and printed in the subtle fibres of our nerves.

Learning comes from education, while knowing comes from revelation. Learning is cognitive, while knowing is spiritual.

I spoke at TED Global 2010 about the ways that video games engage the brain, and in particular, the idea of reward structures: how a challenge or task can be broken down and presented to make it as engaging as possible.

Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

It works. People respond to it.

We learn best with focused attention. As we focus on what we're learning, the brain maps that information on what we already know making new neural connections

Reinforcement is being right.

The things that are acquired consciously permit us to express ourselves unconsciously with a certain richness.

I listen to people talking sometimes, that great river that is language, with all its undercurrents of grammar and nuance, and I wonder how we all learn so quickly to speak it, given that we begin when we are barely old enough to stand upright. I have no memory of finding it hard. Indeed, I have no memory of it at all.

Putting together philosophy and children would have been difficult for most of history. But very fortunately for me, when I started graduate school there was a real scientific revolution taking place in developmental psychology.

It's easier to learn many other things, if you first learn how to learn.

Most of the words you know and love and use every day are not words you learned by looking them up in a dictionary and reading a definition.