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
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
“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
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 are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain,… — Daniel Levitin Copy Share Image
We are compelled to drive toward total knowledge, right down to the levels of the neuron and the gene. When we have… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Your brain has a trillion neurons and every neuron has ten thousand little dendrites. The system of inter-communication is awe-inspiring. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
“The human brain has billions of neurons and hundreds of billions of interconnections. It can process more than two million bits of… — Ben Carson Copy Share Image
For me, consciousness is the most interesting unsolved problem of science, and, in fact, we may never know what it is about… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
[N]o scientist likes to be criticized. ... But you don't reply to critics: "Wait a minute, wait a minute; this is a… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Unlike the heart or kidney, which have a small, defined set of cell types, we still do not have a taxonomy of… — Thomas R. Insel Copy Share Image
There are 100 billion neurons in the adult human brain, and each neuron makes something like 1,000 to 10,000 contacts with other… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
The brain is the most complicated organ in the universe. We have learned a lot about other human organs. We know how… — Francis Collins Copy Share Image
“Remarkably, the fetal brain generates far more neurons than are found in the adult. Why? During late fetal development, there is a… — Robert M. Sapolsky 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 entire universe - for one thing - only exists in your perceptions. That's all you're gonna see of it. To all… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
“most expensive in the body, second only to the heart. Neurons may be small, but they’re costly to make and maintain, consuming… — Jennifer Ackerman Copy Share Image
There is no real independent self, aloof from other human beings, inspecting the world, inspecting other people. You are, in fact, connected… — Vilayanur S. Ramachandran Copy Share Image
An illustration I use to get people to understand it is this: I'll ask major corporate audiences: Why don't you just take… — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
In the brain, you have connections between the neurons called synapses, and they can change. All your knowledge is stored in those… — Geoffrey Hinton 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
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
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
He always reminded us that every atom in our bodies was once part of a distant star that had exploded. He talked… — Greg Iles Copy Share Image
In my view, while the single neuron is the basic anatomical and information processing-signaling unit of the brain, it is not capable… — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
All that's known is this: there is no central processor, no single computer. Nothing that simple. Millions of neurons process information simultaneously… — Gretel Ehrlich Copy Share Image
Throughout our lifetimes, we are constantly regenerating new brain cells in the hippocampus, a process called neurogenesis. New stem cells are constantly… — David Perlmutter Copy Share Image
If my dramatic career doesn't work out, I will go on to research and find cures for Alzheimer's or Parkinson's and other… — Freddie Stroma Copy Share Image
Even then, more than a year earlier, there were neurons in her head, not far from her ears, that were being strangled… — Lisa Genova Copy Share Image
Consciousness is somehow a by-product of the simultaneous, high frequency firing of neurons in different parts of the brain. It's the meshing… — Francis Crick 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
“The really amazing thing about all this is no matter what you believe,it took some doing to get from a point where… — Jodi Picoult Copy Share Image
“Consistent and chronic distractions have the power we give it focal access, to rob us of our long-term historic memory of unhurried… — Tracey Bond Copy Share Image
It's this expandable capacity to represent reasons that we have that gives us a soul. But what's it made of? It's made… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
For the last century of neuroscience, lots of people have tried to control neurons using all sorts of different technologies - pharmacology… — Edward Boyden Copy Share Image
Such a bandwidth! God, who may not have a brain made of neurons, or a CPU made of silicon, but if he… — Richard Dawkins 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
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 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
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