Sentences with phrase «brain makes sense of the world»

Four decades ago, an MIT neuroscientist named Jerry Lettvin had a sudden inspiration about how our brains make sense of the world.

Understand this simple, powerful truth offered by my friend Zaretta Hammond in her recent book Culturally Responsive Teaching and the Brain: «Culture, it turns out, is the way every brain makes sense of the world.»

While society put a value on individuals regulating (controlling) their feelings appropriately, it is often overlooked that early stressful experiences, even if not consciously remembered, affect how our brain makes sense of the world and how we act «despite ourselves».

Not exact matches

By this he meant that the human brain, along with its senses, and with is learned cultural bias, and even with the extension our scientific instruments gives us, has only made a rough map in our minds of the REAL world (the territory).

While I'm more of an atheist than anything else and respect Mr. Hawking's vast knowledge of the sciences and believe he's probably correct in his assertions I also believe that NO ONE really knows what's in store for us after death... most likely nothing at all since that's what makes sense to me, but all the brains in our world put together don't really know for sure.

If we start this season with those two in our starting 11 it will be a clear sign from this organization that nothing has changed and that we will never get it right until both Kroenke and Wenger are gone... neither one of these players should still be with our club at this point because they represent the settling half - measures that have plagued this team for a number of years... this is what I call the «no man's land» of the soccer world, where teams don't have enough talented young players, unlike a Monaco or Dortmund, because they have lost the plot from an organizational standpoint... they are so reliant on one individual to run the whole operation that their once relevant scouting department has become so antiquated that it can no longer find those hidden gems it once had... furthermore, when you leave all decision - making to a manager who despises any dissenting opinions, your management team becomes little more than a stagnant group of «yes men» and no new ideas emerge... so instead of developing a team with the qualities necessary to excel in a particular system, you continually make half - brain purchases year after year to stifle dissent from the ticket - buying public, then try desperately to finagle together a lineup regardless of what would make positional sense... have you ever heard of a team who plays players out of position so often... of course not because that manager would likely be fired and never work for a team of any consequence ever again

Truth is, they are just being kids... They have a developmental need for unstructured play (which is how our brains learn), and its how they make sense of the world and integrate their experiences.

New experimental results reported in 2014 helped bring scientists closer to understanding how the brain manipulates memories to make sense of the world.

I have been going deaf since my 20s, and two years ago I was fitted with hearing aids which instantly brought a world of missing sound back to my ears, although it took a little longer for my brain to make sense of it.

Time in the brain underlies synchronization of sights and sounds needed to make sense of the external world.

These neurons, described in today's issue of Nature, appear to be first in line to process incoming visual signals into a spatial map, suggesting that one of the brain's first steps toward making sense of the outside world is to compensate for the body's own motion.

This gives researchers a unique opportunity to work out how the brain normally makes sense of the world.

«To make sense of the world around us, the brain has to rapidly decide whether to combine different sources of information,» said Michael Barnett - Cowan, a professor in the Department of Kinesiology at the University of Waterloo and senior author on the paper.

In the traditional view of perception, information from the outside world pours into the senses, works its way through the brain, and makes itself consciously seen, heard, and felt.

And while our brains are absolutely brilliant in their ability to help us find logic and make sense of things, they don't have a deeper connection to the world around us.

So excess estrogen severely impacts your entire system, and you don't necessarily feel it all at once obviously, but a build up of «false» estrogen leads to a world of trouble, everything from weight gain, to sluggishness, to brain development, even lowering sexual drive, and also now is being linked to infertility, which makes sense.

«The two (brain and body) are not disconnected as we once thought, and it is imperative, if we are serious about developing the whole student, that we as educators, learn the language of the body, of its movement potential, and how kinesthetic awareness informs how we make sense of the world from infancy to adulthood.»

This system plays an essential role in creating schemas in the brain which make sense of the social world around us.

Such works created a nervous sense of how representation operates in the everyday world — almost subliminally much of the time, tapping into myths and illusions sunk deep in our brains, influencing the way we act, how we dress, behave in public, occupy space, choose and attract sexual partners, spend money, make friends and enemies.