- Nov 07, 2020
Brain Quotes
Quotes on the mind, cognition, and neuroscience.
Several quotes here compare human and animal brain development, while others get technical about how scientists actually study brain tissue and electrical activity. For a narrower angle, see Brain Power.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Family Member
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- Nov 07, 2020
The same regions of the brain light up when someone touches their smartphone as when they touch a family member or a pet.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are no genes or areas in the brain devoted uniquely to reading. Rather, our ability to read represents our brain's protean capacity to learn something outside our repertoire by creating new circuits that connect existing circuits in a different way.
- Language
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- Nov 07, 2020
After we become literate, we literally 'think differently' about language: images of brain activation between literate and nonliterate humans bear this out.
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's an old rule in neuroscience that does not alter with age: use it or lose it. It is a very hopeful principle when applied to critical thought in the reading brain because it implies choice.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Learning to read, for the brain, is a lot like an amateur ringmaster first learning how to organise a three-ring circus. He wants to begin individually and then synchronise all the performances. It only happens after all the separate acts are learned and practised long and well.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The attention span of children may be one of the main reasons why an immersion in on-screen reading is so engaging, and it may also be why digital reading may ultimately prove antithetical to the long-in-development, reflective nature of the expert reading brain as we know it.
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- Nov 07, 2020
The brain is constantly adapting.
- Encounters
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a cognitive neuroscientist and scholar of reading, I am particularly concerned with the plight of the reading brain as it encounters this technologically rich society.
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- Nov 07, 2020
Reading or written language is a cultural invention that necessitated totally new connections among structures in the human brain underlying language, perception, cognition, and, over time, our emotions.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We humans invented literacy, which means it doesn't come for free with our genes like speech and vision. Every brain has to learn it afresh.
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am an apologist for the reading brain. It represents a miracle that springs from the brain's unique capacity to rearrange itself to learn something new.
- Knowledge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Children need to have both time to think and the motivation to think for themselves, to develop an expert reading brain, before the digital mode dominates their reading. The immediacy and volume of information should not be confused with true knowledge.
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- Nov 07, 2020
We human beings were never born to read; we invented reading and then had to teach it to every new generation. Each new reader comes to reading with a 'fresh' brain - one that is programmed to speak, see, and think, but not to read.
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- Nov 07, 2020