Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result…

You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that…

— Eric Kandel

“Working memory involves two different but related skills. The first is the ability to hold information in mind while performing complex tasks.”

— Richard Guare

By the way, pornography? It's a new synaptic pathway. You wake up in the morning, open a thumbnail page, and it leads to a…

— John Mayer

The sweetest memory is that which involves something which one should not have done; the bitterest, that which involves something which one should not…

— George Jean Nathan

“As John Bruer describes in The Myth of the First Three Years, nature has developed three ways for you to learn as an adult:…

— Donald O. Clifton

“Satisfactions provide the last clue to talent. As we described in the previous chapter, your strongest synaptic connections are designed so that when you…

— Donald O. Clifton

Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in which either…

— Gerald Edelman

"You were designed to be very smart, Max," she told me. "We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing." "And…

— James Patterson

Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of…

— Gregory Bateson

Since the idea that modification of synaptic function can provide a basis for memory arose shortly after the first anatomical description of the synapse…

— Gerald Edelman

If you have a lesion in the hippocampus in both sides, you have short term memory, but you can convert that short term memory…

— Eric Kandel

I've been around a long time, and I've been interested in memory for a long time. And one of my earlier interests in molecular…

— Eric Kandel

“It’s been said that the average person’s short-term memory can only retain seven chunks of information. So the theory behind cognitive load is that…

— S.J. Scott

Short term memory is not good.

— Jim McMahon

“The neurological/cognitive symptoms are more characteristically variable than constant and often have a distinct fatiguing component to them. Especially common are cognitive ‘fog’ or…

— Bruce M. Carruthers