With its billions of interconnected neurons, whose interactions change from millisecond to millisecond, the human brain is an archetypal complex system. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
“the neuron bundle comes from our eyes, ears, nose, mouth or skin. The key difference lies not in the neurons that carry… — Max Tegmark Copy Share Image
“They are part of the nervous system because of the role calcium has in the working of neurons, and they are part… — Leslie Kaminoff Copy Share Image
In the human mind, the number of possible connections that can be made between neurons greatly exceeds the number of atoms in… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
You probably think Stephen Hawking is in that wheelchair because of a motor neuron disease. But if you got as much barely-legal… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
Artificial intelligence is growing up fast, as are robots whose facial expressions can elicit empathy and make your mirror neurons quiver. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Whatever we call it - mind, character, soul - we like to think we possess something that is greater than the sum… — Susanna Kaysen Copy Share Image
We started all this research way back in the early 1990s, developing a technique that allows us to record the electrical signals… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Life and consciousness are the two great mysteries. Actually, their substrates are the inanimate. And how do you get from neurons shooting… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The sex that is presented to us in everyday culture feels strange to me; its images are fragments, lifeless, removed from normal… — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
When you're designing and inventing the way I did, every minute of your life is put - every neuron in your brain… — Steve Wozniak Copy Share Image
Shaped a little like a loaf of French country bread, our brain is a crowded chemistry lab, bustling with nonstop neural conversations.Imagine… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
Today, when we look at a brain, we see an intricate network of billions of neurons in constant, crackling communication, a chemical… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
When you read a book, the neurons in your brain fire overtime, deciding what the characters are wearing, how they're standing, and… — Meg Rosoff Copy Share Image
Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many connections in a single cubic centimeter of brain tissue as there… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
A typical neuron makes about ten thousand connections to neighboring neurons. Given the billions of neurons, this means there are as many… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
“Neurons that fire together wire together.” What this means in terms of memory is that the more intense the activity is between… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
We know a certain amount about neurons. You can do fMRI and watch parts of the brain light up. But what happens… — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
One part puzzle mixed with one part racer with just a dash of art and music just to blend everything together, 'Dyad'… — Rob Manuel Copy Share Image
Perhaps eggs are like neurons, which also are not replenished in adulthood: they know too much. Eggs must plan the party. Sperm… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
The circadian neurons are one of the few circuits in neurobiology where we have a chance to understand at multiple levels how… — Michael Rosbash Copy Share Image
“even while it’s true that we are tied to our molecules and proteins and neurons—as strokes and hormones and drugs and microorganisms… — David Eagleman Copy Share Image
There is one brain organ that is optimised for understanding and articulating logical processes and that is the outer layer of the… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Space and time, not proteins and neurons, hold the answer to the problem of consciousness. When we consider the nerve impulses entering… — Robert Lanza Copy Share Image
“When your brain is always engaged, when your neurons are always firing, when you find yourself in a continual mode of reacting… — Jeff Davidson Copy Share Image
The ability to double our biomass - not by waiting several million years and growing to be the size of an elephant… — John Medina Copy Share Image
Most of the different types of cells in our body die and are replaced every few weeks or months. However, neurons, the… — Jill Bolte Taylor Copy Share Image
The newborn infant is now seen to be wired with awesome precision... This marvelous robot will be launched into the world under… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The brain, or cerebrum, is a material entity located inside the skull which may be inspected, touched, weighed, and measured. It is… — Jose Manuel Rodriguez Delgado Copy Share Image
It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Where did feelings go when they disappeared? Did they leave a chemical trace somewhere in our minds, so that if we could… — Evelyn Lau Copy Share Image
I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that… — A. S. Byatt Copy Share Image
Since the universe must contain millions of appropriate planets, consciousness in some form - but not with the paired eyes and limbs,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
We are using the neurons, our identity, to constantly maintain our identity. Whether you are awake, asleep, or dreaming, this process is… — U.G. Krishnamurti Copy Share Image
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Children have a ton of mirror neurons when they are babies and kids and they mimic what they see and so heroes… — John Assaraf Copy Share Image
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis… — John O'Keefe Copy Share Image
My mitochondria comprise a very large proportion of me. I cannot do the calculation, but I suppose there is almost as much… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
