Quote by Catherine M. Pittman

“The thalamus is thus a critical interface between information travelling from the cortex to the motor centres, and from the senses back to the…

— Mark Plumb

“Our brains turn into simple signal-processing units, quickly shepherding information into consciousness and then back out again.”

— Nicholas Carr

“I think that consciousness is the way information feels when being processed in certain complex ways.”

— Max Tegmark

The brain is the citadel of sense perception.

— Pliny the Elder

“I believe that consciousness is, essentially, the way information feels when being processed.”

— John Brockman

The Holy Grail of neuroscience has been to understand how and where information is encoded in the brain.

— Thomas R. Insel

But the newest research is showing that many properties of the brain are genetically organized, and don't depend on information coming in from the…

— Steven Pinker

A profound intriguing and compelling guide to the intricacies of the human brain.

— Oliver Sacks

“The more attention the brain pays to a given stimulus, the more elaborately the information will be encoded—and retained.”

— John Medina

“Conscious parts of the brain train other parts of the neural machinery, establishing the goals and allocating the resources.”

— David Eagleman

“The lateral nucleus is the part of the amygdala that receives incoming messages from the senses.”

— Catherine M. Pittman

“consciousness has a precise role to play in the computational economy of the brain—it selects, amplifies, and propagates relevant thoughts.”

— Stanislas Dehaene