Synaptic Quotes
- The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain.… — Ellen Meloy
- Synaptic summation is the technical term used in neurophysiology for those instances in which some neuron C is fired only by a combination of neurons… — Gregory Bateson
- Daydreaming defeats practice; those of us who browse TV while working out will never reach the top ranks. Paying full attention seems to boost the… — Daniel Goleman
- You were designed to be very smart, Max,' she told me. 'We electrically stimulated your synaptic nerve endings while your brain was developing.' (The director)… — James Patterson
- Long-term memory involves enduring changes that result from the growth of new synaptic connections. — Eric Kandel
- You could double the number of synaptic connections in a very simple neurocircuit as a result of experience and learning. The reason for that was… — Eric Kandel
- As the brain matures, one thing that happens is the pruning of the synapses. Synaptic pruning does not occur willy-nilly; it depends largely on how… — Robin Marantz Henig