I don't think there's anything unique about human intellience. All the nuerons in the brain that make up perceptions and emotions operate… — Bill Gates Copy Share Image
Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a… — Gregory Bateson Copy Share Image
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to… — Michael Merzenich 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
Studies of decision-making in the monkey, where activity of single neurons in parietal cortex is recorded, you can see a lot about… — Patricia Churchland Copy Share Image
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100… — Gerald Fischbach 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
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
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
Imagine something a million times more powerful than your smartphone that is the size of a brain cell interfacing with your biological… — Jason Silva Copy Share Image
Most theoretical work since the proposals of Hebb (1949) and Hayek (1952) has relied upon particular forms of dependent synaptic rules in… — Gerald Edelman Copy Share Image
A book can change the world... Every book a child reads creates new neurons in that child's brain. — Jackie French Copy Share Image
There are billions of neurons in our brains, but what are neurons? Just cells. The brain has no knowledge until connections are… — Tim Berners-Lee Copy Share Image
What the ordinary person means by a 'miracle' is some gross distortion or suspension of the laws of nature... but life itself… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
In our constant search for meaning in this baffling and temporary existence, trapped as we are within our three pounds of neurons,… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Keeping a slow hunch alive poses challenges on multiple scales. For starters, you have to preserve the hunch in your own memory,… — Steven Johnson Copy Share Image
Octopuses have hundreds of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
The well-being of a neuron depends on its ability to communicate with other neurons. Studies have shown that electrical and chemical stimulation… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
As a bio major, I figured "free will" meant chemicals in your brain telling you what to do, the molecules bouncing around… — Scott Westerfeld 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
The brain immediately confronts us with its great complexity. The human brain weighs only three to four pounds but contains about 100… — Gerald Fischbach 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
“I feel as though dispossessed from the semblances of some crystalline reality to which I’d grown accustomed, and to some degree, had… — Ashim Shanker 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
