"The ability to think about what is not happening is a cognitive achievement that comes at an emotional cost."
Dr. Andrew Huberman
"How we think about a given set of activities affects how we perform those activities."
Dr. Andrew Huberman
"We know that people, kids, and adults with ADHD actually have a tremendous capacity to focus if they like what they're focusing on."
"We are as much imposing onto the world our own expectations of what is there as we are perceiving what's actually there."
"Cognitive flexibility is the only mental capacity that correlates with rank in League of Legends."
"According to research at Cambridge University, it doesn't matter in what order the letters in a word are, the only important thing is that the first and last letters are in the right place."
"The Ebbinghaus illusion proves that our concept of size is in many ways more reliant on context than reality."
"Our brains really like labels, it likes categories, it likes defined homes for things."
"What you think you see is only as real as your brain tells you it is."
"When we talk about memory what we're really talking about is how your immediate experiences relate to previous and future experiences."
"Recognizing things makes you feel accomplished and part of the world."
"You can trust it as a general reference, but every time you remember something, you can make changes to it."
"Your brain is designed to help you check things off a list."
"Confirmation bias is the tendency to search for, interpret, and focus on and remember information in a way that confirms your own preconceptions about the world."
"Every time you remember something... you change it a little bit."
"And though children can get a basic grasp of spatial reasoning by 18 months, to be able to do this sort of precise, dexterous movement with their hands and fingers, these are fine motor skills that a child masters no earlier than the age of 3."
"Chunking has been applied to computer interfaces for things like drop-down menu items and menu bars with buttons."
"Affordances provide strong clues to the operations of things."
"Our time perception does not seem absolute. It seems distinctly relational and very malleable."
"Cognitive dissonance is often experienced by those resisting change."
"So, I think that's where it gets real, real scary."
"Extraordinarily instructive with regard to confirmation bias."
"Humor is one of the greatest teachers of information in some ways interestingly enough you can see good boy at all 2015 for an overview but the overall findings illustrate that humor assists in the long term storage and retrieval of information."
"It's actually very hard to combat cognitive biases even when you're aware of them."
"Can the language we speak control the way we think?"
"Most people don't hold opinions because they were reasoned into them, they hold them for protective coloration."
"Strong emotions tend to interfere with critical thinking."
"Cognitive distortions create a reality where change isn't possible, they make you feel trapped and hopeless when the reality is that with the right help or with the right skills or support or effort, you can change your life."
"The human mind is hard-wired to pay attention to and understand stories."
"Control begins with your thoughts and determines your actions."
"These assumptions, these stories create our reality."
"Our capacity for cognitive dissonance blinds us to reality."
"When faced with uncertainty, we can return to our understanding of these prototypes for answers about confusing scenarios."
"To save energy and be efficient, our brains build what are known as predictive models."
"Our thoughts are like glasses: they are the lens through which we see the world."
"If you want to improve your mental health, the skill of cognitive defusion teaches you to separate yourself from your thoughts."
"With cognitive defusion, we create a little space between ourselves and our thoughts."
"The key to long-term memory is information combined with emotion, becomes unforgettable."
"Perception is a continual dance between sensory input and perceptual prediction."
"The brain's expectations really do shape what we experience."
"Intuition is the result of implicit learning, picking up on complex patterns."
"The more connections we make to a piece of information the more likely we are to retain that information over time."
"The Mandela effect: a fantastic example of memory inconsistencies."
"People do not choose their beliefs; they are either convinced or they are not."
"Confirmation bias: a way to get around cognitive dissonance."
"You cannot take a thought out of your mind, you can only replace it with a greater thought."
"If you've programmed your mind to look for things you will see them."
"The more you're looking for something, the more you're gonna see it."
"Even when we correctly rely on our memories, they can be highly inaccurate or outright false."
"The test provides empirical evidence for how important context is in our mental processing of what's being depicted."
"Your mind is the vessel that interprets reality."
"The misinformation effect predisposes people to revise previous memories."
"In this stage, the child acquires an understanding of object permanence and starts to understand cause and effect relationships."
"People can and will rewrite the original media in their head and daydream it into whatever they want to see."
"Two different people presented with the exact same information can understand it the exact same way and reach different conclusions."
"The person's perception of detection apprehension triggers cognitive overload."
"If you make it too firm in your mind then you kind of see what you want to see."
"We as humans have a propensity to see patterns everywhere."
"If you add just a little bit of emotion, rationality goes out the window."
"Start something, keep the mind engaged with open loops. Finish it."
"Heuristics are mental shortcuts that can facilitate problem-solving, reduce cognitive load, and can be effective for making immediate judgments. However, they often result in irrational or inaccurate conclusions."
"Human perception is leaky; we can't separate what we see, hear, smell, or taste."
"Our brains are hardwired to find explanations for the unexplained, even if there aren’t any answers."
"Edges are very important to the way that we see the world and they can extrapolate from it and deduce what the overall structure is."
"Cognitive dissonance is uncomfortable but effective in challenging beliefs."
"The way you think will dictate how you think."
"It's true that you have the power. The brain is like a landscape, you create that landscape yourself."
"The way the brain works is continually telling us stories about the world, about ourselves, about the way people are."
"Thinking Fast and Slow by Daniel Kahneman explores how our minds work and make decisions."
"Pressing the wrong button because of muscle memory."
"Everybody's trying to like guess what's going on and so this allows you to resolve ambiguity it allows you to do inference much faster without movement and it's why you have a single percept of the world."
"Humans love seeing patterns in literally anything."
"Perception is a process of inference, the brain's best guess of the causes of sensory signals it encounters."
"Inattentional blindness... we can miss something more important that's right in front of our eyes."
"When a thought moves from the non conscious mind to the conscious mind, it becomes changeable."
"Binary thinking shapes our understanding of human differences."
"We become intuitive; we remove ourselves from over-identification with the conscious mind and we rely more on the subconscious mind."
"Spectra exists. It's just that we don't represent them as spectra."
"Memory is something that we take for granted."
"Our memories are far from secure, you know recorded experiences like videotape it's more like Wikipedia and you can go in and change them in many different ways..."
"Your brain doesn't really know the difference between you imagining doing something and you physically do something."
"Piaget's very interesting claim is that kids don't [have object permanence]."
"Independent reality testing has been restored; there are no cognitive distortions."
"Cognitive psychology is a more positive approach compared to behaviorism and psychoanalysis because it focuses on improving mental productivity."
"The mind is very good at following instructions and getting to a goal if we see what the goal is then it's easy enough for us to be like okay cool that's the goal I'm trying to work towards."
"System one is that it does everything and it does everything quickly, and most of the time it's right, but what it doesn't recognize is that it doesn't recognize its own limitations so that when it encounters an ambiguous situation it makes a choice."
"System two is a very different operation. It gets mobilized when system one encounters difficulties."
"Religion fits into this agency detector slot that people have in their minds."
"I experimented with it, and I was quite surprised to find that anything that I revised after having done the long-winded procedures seemed to sink in much faster and stayed in my memory."
"...a merger occurred between cognitive psychology and brain science which really gave rise to a new science of mind."
"Our short-term memory is just going to be a brief storage system."
"Your perception of effort, your perception of reward are variables that you can modify to change how your brain appraises these tasks."
"The brain is shaped by how you think."
"Ben's approach to AGI over many decades now has been inspired by many disciplines, but in particular from human cognitive psychology and computer science."
"People make use of heuristics in moral reasoning just as they do in non-moral reasoning."
"When it comes to your brain's common sense, what your eye sees isn't always what your brain believes."
"Cognitive development is simply the study of how we acquire the ability to learn, to think, to communicate, and to remember."
"Visual memories are the strongest memories."
"A reliable way to make people believe in falsehoods is frequent repetition because familiarity is not easily distinguished from truth."
"Episodic memory is a recollection of one's own life events."
"We love narratives, we love stories, we love explanations."
"Schemas help us organize and process the world around us; they also adapt and change as we're presented with new and different information."
"Relational frames are frameworks that we make about how objects are related."
"That miracle is there, that we generalize across domains is the fact on the ground."
"Making things memorable also makes them more learnable."
"Going against expectation makes things more salient or noticeable."
"Our brain likes novelty, so whenever we encounter words that we've learned before but in new context, we remember them better."
"We have many memories; they're all accessible in principle, but they're not all available."
"Perception is how we recognize and interpret our sensations."
"Selective attention allows us to focus in the midst of multiple things."
"Cognitive distortions are prevalent everywhere, and being mindful and aware is one of the key things you can do."
"The cognitive approach deals with internal mental processes."
"Sometimes we see just what we expect to see."
"Above 1800 milliseconds, the subjective rhythmization becomes impossible, and successive sounds are not perceptually linked."
"It doesn't just determine what you expect or want, it bloody well determines what you see."
"Cognitive psychology is the scientific study of the mind."
"The whole point of cognitive psychology is that we are building our discipline on the assumption that there is an inner world called mind."
"The cognitive psychology is actually resting on this distinction between the inner and the outer world."
"The cognitive approach is quite heavily linked to computers."
"Real world applications are a strength for the cognitive approach."
"The cognitive approach is less deterministic."
"Post-event discussion can considerably change what you remember about an event."
"...the ruling paradigm today in cognitive psychology has become 'I compute, therefore I understand'."
"Remembering where you parked your car is an example of episodic memory."
"It focuses on how we receive, perceive, store, and retrieve information."
"Studying of the brain is very important in studying cognitive psychology."
"Choice-supportive bias: When you choose something, you tend to feel positive about it, even if that choice has flaws."
"Danny Kahneman is a 'think' guy, he believes in think, and Gladwell is much more of an advocate of blink."