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The brain knows the real secret of seduction, more effective than even music and martinis. Just keep whispering, 'Gee, you are really…
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Ineffective or weak brain connections are pruned in much the same way a gardener would prune a tree or bush, giving the…
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What's it like to be a baby? It's like being in love in Paris for the first time after you've had three…
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Owning our past allows us to own our future.
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The largest and most powerful computers are still no match for the smallest and weakest humans.
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It's turns out to be much easier to simulate a grandmaster chess player than it is to simulate a 2-year-old.
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Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing,
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Scientists learn about the world in three ways: They analyze statistical patterns in the data, they do experiments, and they learn from…
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The brain is highly structured, but it is also extremely flexible. It's not a blank slate, but it isn't written in stone,…
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Because we imagine, we can have invention and technology. It's actually play, not necessity, that is the mother of invention.
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I'm afraid the parenting advice to come out of developmental psychology is very boring: pay attention to your kids and love them.
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Adults often assume that most learning is the result of teaching and that exploratory, spontaneous learning is unusual. But actually, spontaneous learning…
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In order to understand what is meant by the word 'brain' as it is used by neuroscientists, we must bear in mind…
— John Zachary Young
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Portraits of the Mind is a remarkable book that combines beautifully reproduced illustrations of the nervous system as it has been visualized…
— Unknown Author
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Computer programmers, biotechnologists, environmental scientists, neuroscientists, nanotech engineers - all of these fields, and more, should have at least a course in…
— Jamais Cascio
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What do we mean by "knowledge" or "understanding"? And how do billions of neurons achieve them? These are complete mysteries. Admittedly, cognitive…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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The intersection of psychology and business is typically seen as being as congested, stressful, and emotionally barren as a peak commute traffic…
— Chip Conley
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The real excitement is collaborating with computer scientists and neuroscientists and starting to understand in detail how children learn so much so…
— Alison Gopnik
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For the longest time, neuroscientists were forced to be passive observers of brain activity.
— Unknown Author
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Today, you have neuroscientists working on a genetic, behavioural or cognitive level, and then you have informaticians, chemists and mathematicians. They all…
— Henry Markram
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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
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It is actually the neuroscientists and evolutionists who do the best job of explaining the reasons behind the most unreasonable behavior.
— Nancy Gibbs
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Neuroscientists are novices at deception.
— Teller
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