Nervous system Quote by David DiSalvo Download Open image ““the brain's activity—and, indeed, the activity of our nervous system in total—is our mind.”” — David DiSalvo ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nervous system Psychology
“My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings—what we sometimes call “mind”—are a consequence of its anatomy and physiology, and nothing more.… — Michio Kaku Copy Share Image
“Every activity of mind produces chemical and physiological changes in the nerve-centres, in the organs, and eventually in the whole body; while every activity… — Kaiten Nukariya Copy Share Image
My fundamental premise about the brain is that its workings - what we sometimes call "mind" - are a consequence of its anatomy and… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“When we speak of thought, we are speaking of the currency of mind—the very stuff of the brain's relentless activity.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The brain creates both the mind and the body we experience. A physical thing creates the mental world we inhabit.” — Bruce M. Hood Copy Share Image
All our behaviours are a result of neurophysiological activity in the brain. — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
The brain, to be sure, is indeed the physical embodiment of the mind, the organ through which the mind finds expression and through which… — Jeffrey M. Schwartz Copy Share Image
The dynamic interplay of neural activity within and in between systems is the very essence of brain function. — Richard Restak Copy Share Image
“The flip side of this reality is that our big brains, advanced as they are, come with an array of complex shortcomings and are… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“Participants who anticipated more rapid feedback scored the highest on the test.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The best way to think of how our brains frame information is to imagine a picture frame, except unlike a normal frame, this one… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“the amPFC and PCC were shown to play a large role in self-referential thinking and autobiographical memory (essentially, the “me” part of your brain).” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“those who ask themselves whether they will perform a task generally do better than those who tell themselves that they will.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“In German, bridge (die brucke) is a feminine noun; in Spanish, bridge (el puente) is a masculine noun. Boroditsky found that when asked to… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“selective attention,” also called “selectivity bias”—the tendency to orient oneself toward and process information from only one part of our environment to the exclusion… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“great deal of “green” marketing is predicated on the assumption that people will buy a green product to make themselves feel better about moral… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“appears that our first instinct is for idleness, but when given an excuse to be busy (even a meaningless one), we're liable to act… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“The reason that persuasive messages are short, pithy, and digestible in seconds is that we process them so quickly that they become familiar without… — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
“schema (singular form of schemata) is like a mental map of concepts that hangs together by association.” — David DiSalvo Copy Share Image
When it comes to having a central nervous system, and the ability to feel pain, hunger, and thirst, a rat is a pig is… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
Time is the nervous system of narration, whether factual or fictive. If it gets confused some of the minutiae of human nature are certain… — Glenway Wescott Copy Share Image
With the arrival of electric technology, man has extended, or set outside himself, a live model of the central nervous system itself. To the degree that this is so, it is a development that suggests a desperate suicidal autoamputation, as if the central nervous system could no longer depend on the physical organs to be protective buffers against the slings… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share
No actor has made a career of exerting determination to the extent that Matt Damon has. In the 'Bourne' movies, he burned himself down… — Elvis Mitchell Copy Share Image
It's not telepathy. It's not the Borg. But we created a new central nervous system made of two brains. — Miguel Nicolelis Copy Share Image
Zoocentrism is the primary fallacy of human sociobiology, for this view of human behavior rests on the argument that if the actions of "lower"… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The patterns of activity of neurons in sensory areas can be altered by patterns of attention. Experience coupled with attention leads to physical changes in the structure and future functioning of the nervous system. This leaves us with a clear physiological fact…moment by moment we choose and sculpt how our ever-changing minds will work. We choose who we will be… — Michael Merzenich Copy Share
Torture takes over someone's nervous system. Torture takes over what they feel. Torture takes over and penetrates into their mind and into their body.… — Mark Danner Copy Share Image
It was at Harvard not quite forty years ago that I went into an anechoic [totally silent] chamber not expecting in that silent room to hear two sounds: one high, my nervous system in operation, one low, my blood in circulation. The reason I did not expect to hear those two sounds was that they were set into vibration without… — John Cage Copy Share
“To switch effectively from defense to social engagement strategies, the nervous system must do two things: (1) assess risk, and (2) if the environment… — Stephen W. Porges Copy Share Image
Using less of the Earth’s resources more efficiently and productively in a circular economy and making the transition from carbon-based fuels to renewable energies… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“But it must be said from the outset that a disease is never a mere loss or excess— that there is always a reaction, on the part of the affected organism or individual, to restore, to replace, to compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be: and to study or influence these means, no less… — Oliver Sacks Copy Share