Brain Quote by Daniel Levitin

“Do you know novelty can not only keep us engaged, but also serve as a source of motivation? When we are exposed to novelty,…

— Jennifer April

“the brain rewards us with more dopamine for the act of seeking a reward than for the act of receiving one.”

— Brad Stulberg

Over tens and hundreds of thousands of years, we evolved to find certain things stimulating, and as very intelligent, civilized beings, we're enormously stimulated…

— Tom Chatfield

“The need to acquire physical objects, such as food and other supplies that aid our survival, is part of our brain’s operating system. But…

— Nir Eyal

“Adding variability increased the frequency of the pigeons completing the intended action. Skinner’s pigeons tell us a great deal about what helps drive our…

— Nir Eyal

“test subjects played a gambling game while Knutson and his team looked at which areas of their brains became more active. The startling results…

— Nir Eyal

“Research shows that levels of the neurotransmitter dopamine surge when the brain is expecting a reward.[xi] Introducing variability multiplies the effect, creating a focused…

— Nir Eyal

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

— John Medina

We learn best when we're intrinsically motivated - that is, when we try something new for the sheer enjoyment of the experience.

— Rachel Simmons

“the brain shows less activity in the ventral striatum, a part of the brain involved in our response to rewards”

— David DiSalvo

“Of all the chemical transmitter substances sloshing around in your brain, it appears that dopamine may be the most directly related to the neural…

— Michael Shermer

Now, humans have become a dominant force of planetary change and, thus, we may have entered an eon of post-biological evolution in which cognitive…

— David Grinspoon