Quote by Catherine M. Pittman

“Being an executive doesn't require very developed frontal lobes, but rather a combination of charisma, a capacity to sustain boredom, and the ability to…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“The frontal lobes are one of the most important parts of the cortex to understand.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“What does the frontal cortex do? Its list of expertise includes working memory, executive function (organizing knowledge strategically, and then initiating an action based…

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“People who are very Tuned In to context tend to have strong connections from the hippocampus to areas in the prefrontal cortex that control…

— Richard J. Davidson

The principal activities of brains are making changes in themselves.

— Marvin Minsky

“From a psychological point of view, one can see how this is quite true.  People until the age of around twenty five have frontal…

— Summary Station

What does the frontal cortex do? Gratification postponement, executive function, long-term planning, and impulse control. Basically, it makes you do the harder thing.

— Robert M. Sapolsky

“Two Dimensions of Executive Skills: Thinking and Doing Executive skills involving thinking (cognition) Working memory Planning/prioritization Organization Time management Metacognition Executive skills involving doing…

— Richard Guare

“Decision making in the prefrontal cortex, which is a high-level brain process, affects the lower-level sensory processes.”

— Alex Korb

“The brain has only three functions: open, closed, or deprived.”

— Anthony Liccione

Only recently have we begun to understand the specific cognitive skills that contribute to business success and how to measure them. Hopefully, this insight…

— Justin Menkes

“The “chronic overactivity of those brain regions implicated in social thought” can, writes Mitchell,”

— Nicholas Carr