What adolescence is about is by trial and error, honing a frontal cortex that is going to be more optimal by the… — Robert Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Only after a piece of music is done does my frontal cortex allow me to organize what might be trying to come… — Arca Copy Share Image
The frontal cortex doesn't even fully develop until age 25, which is wild! — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
I would have swapped out Donald Trump's frontal cortex for somebody else's for a little more self-control. — David Brooks Copy Share Image
The frontal cortex is an incredibly interesting part of the brain - ours is proportionately bigger and/or more complex than in any… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
It's great to have a buff frontal cortex to do that harder thing - for example, help a person in need rather… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“stimulation of the medial frontal cortex gives one the feeling of the urge to move” — Michael S. Gazzaniga Copy Share Image
What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Children who plan their own goals, set weekly schedules, evaluate their own work build up their frontal cortex and take more control… — Bruce Feiler Copy Share Image
“THE DELAYED MATURATION of the frontal cortex suggests an obvious scenario, namely that early in adolescence the frontal cortex has fewer neurons,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Love facilitates a massive burst of connections in this part of the brain between six and 12 months. Neglect at this time… — Gabrielle Palmer Copy Share Image
When I sit down to make music, I try to enter a flow; I always open a blank session and just make… — Arca Copy Share Image
I was talking to my friend who's a psychologist, who says a woman's frontal cortex isn't fully developed till 25 and a… — Reese Witherspoon Copy Share Image
But often, it's easier to resist temptation with distraction, or to be so inculcated in doing the right thing that it's automatic,… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“If the human species evolved to be an honest one, then why is our frontal cortex so immense and capable of inventing… — Lee Irby Copy Share Image
“Most broadly, the PFC chooses between conflicting options—Coke or Pepsi; blurting out what you really think or restraining yourself; pulling the trigger… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“probably the most important fact about genetics and culture is the delayed maturation of the frontal cortex—the genetic programming for the young… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“how acute stress strengthens connectivity between the frontal cortex and motoric areas, while weakening frontal-hippocampal connections; the result is decision making that… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“We process emotionally salient information more rapidly and automatically, but with less accuracy. Frontal function—working memory, impulse control, executive decision making, risk… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“So if whites see a black face shown at a subliminal speed, the amygdala activates.10 But if the face is shown long… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Metacognitive disorders can be interpreted in terms of early, historical views in which the frontal cortex is considered responsible for abstract reasoning,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“What does the frontal cortex do? Its list of expertise includes working memory, executive function (organizing knowledge strategically, and then initiating an… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
The problem is, is when your focus is created by a crisis, then the frontal lobe shuts down essentially, the frontal cortex… — David Allen Copy Share Image
“Diallo, a West African immigrant in New York, matched a description of a rapist. Four white officers questioned him, and when the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“The brain is heavily influenced by genes. But from birth through young adulthood, the part of the human brain that most defines… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“Work by Martha Farah of the University of Pennsylvania, Tom Boyce of UCSF, and others demonstrates something outrageous: By age five, the… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
“These people showed a marked increase in connections between parts of the frontal cortex associated with self-concept and parts of the brain… — Florence Williams Copy Share Image
“Altogether, these observations suggest that several processes contribute to psychotic experience: the loss of familiarity with the world, hypothetically associated with noisy… — Andreas Heinz Copy Share Image
“Damasio has produced an influential theory about emotion-laden decision making, rooted in the philosophies of Hume and William James; this will soon… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
