Neuroimaging In Psychology Quotes & Sayings

Friedrich Hayek .. seems to have been the first to postulate what is the core of this paper, namely, the idea of memory and perception represented in widely distributed networks of interconnected cortical cells. Subsequently this idea has received theoretical support, however tangential, from the fields of cognitive psychology, connectionism and artificial intelligence. Empirically, it is well supported by the physiological study and neuroimaging of working memory. — Joaquin Fuster

The tape measures and weighing scales of the Victorian brain scientists have been supplanted by powerful neuroimaging technologies, but there is still a lesson to be learned from historical examples such as these. State-of-the-art brain scanners offer us unprecedented information about the structure and working of the brain. But don't forget that, once, wrapping a tape measure around the head was considered modern and sophisticated, and it's important not to fall into the same old traps. As we'll see in later chapters, although certain popular commentators make it seem effortlessly easy, the sheer complexity of the brain makes interpreting and understanding the meaning of any sex differences we find in the brain a very difficult task. But the first, and perhaps surprising, issue in sex differences research is that of knowing which differences are real and which, like the intially promising cephalic index, are flukes or spurious. — Cordelia Fine

We don't see things as they are, we see them as we are. — Anais Nin

The power of elegy, even in the face of an unbounded grief, to provide a containing form is vividly embodied by Anne Carson's 'Nox,' a nocturne with carefully controlled visual and tactile properties. — Susan Stewart

I love that woman. The only thing I want is for her to be happy. I'll do whatever it takes to see that happen. Do you get that? — Kelley Armstrong

'Entourage' is almost required watching in L.A., and everyone seems to have story suggestions for the show itself, which is amazing because it makes you realize the show's really struck a chord and found its audience. — Kevin Connolly

You are the single most beautiful thing I have ever looked at in my life. — Sharon Cameron

The best principals are not heroes; they are hero makers. — Roland Barthes

We may love imperfectly, we may love blindly, but love we must.
WARS OF THE FLESH — Germaine Shames

There's danger in the system of justice that makes no allowance for circumstance. — Erika Johansen