Brain Quote by Thomas R. Insel

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

— Oliver Sacks

As an ex-programmer, I'm still just curious about how the brain functions, how that flow of information really happens.

— Paul Allen

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

— John Medina

Neuroscience is exciting. Understanding how thoughts work, how connections are made, how the memory works, how we process information, how information is stored -…

— Lisa Randall

“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

“Years of neuroscience research have led to the current understanding of the brain as a prediction machine—an amazingly complex organ that processes information to…

— David DiSalvo

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

“When information comes in through your sense organs, it’s directed to the thalamus, which is like the Grand Central Station of the brain”

— Catherine M. Pittman

Exciting discoveries in neuroscience are allowing us to fit educational methods to new understandings of how the brain develops.

— John Katzman

The information. Every bit that of information that was ever in your brain. But the information is not the mind Jenna. That we've never…

— Mary E. Pearson

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

— Nicholas Carr

Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition,…

— John O'Keefe