Sentences with phrase «brains thinking about»

If your making comments like this about something so obvious all I could only imagine what your brain thinks about other races, the truth about American history and the human race and its history.

If your making comments like this about something so obvious; I could only imagine what your brain thinks about other races, the truth about American history and the human race and its history.

That is because when the brain thinks about moving both arms at once, the activity is not merely a sum of what you might see if you moved each arm individually, but a completely different pattern.

That mindset has a profound effect on our psyche, most specifically on how our brains think about willpower.

If your brain thinks about food, eating, and their rules most of the day, attuned eating will feel a bit premature.

Still, it's a curious side effect people who think too much about everything seem to encounter, and it can be quite enraging at times, especially when you try to fall asleep and your brain thinks about showing you that awkward conversation / event / moment from five years ago (yes, those things can happen and I bet a few of you know that).

Yup, what do our brains think about?

He got my brain thinking about the African - American experience in a different way, in a way that felt vital.

Do you really think she'd go rescue a mutt from the pound when she could just go spend way too much money for a puppy at a pet store after taxing her little tiny brain thinking about it for 30 whole minutes?

But planting the seeds of anxiety, whether it's about being able to maintain their lifestyle in retirement or adequate college funds to educate their children, gets the brain thinking about possible future problems.

Not exact matches

As we our bombarded with information our brains sift through the small percentage that is necessary for our cognitive functions, or in other words the things that require us to think about, for instance, reading.

Forget so - called «brain training» programs, which science has recently largely discredited, and instead think about taking up a simple meditation practice.

But whatever the mechanism, the bottom line is that if your brain is a bit frazzled from fear of failure or previous setbacks of any kind, simply taking a few minutes to think (or write) about past successes before you tackle any cognitively demanding task is likely to help your brain perform at its peak.

Having studied experimental psychology as an undergraduate at Cambridge, Hinton was enthusiastic about neural nets, which were software constructs that took their inspiration from the way networks of neurons in the brain were thought to work.

The act of just thinking about something, versus saying it out loud, doesn't organize your thoughts and can clutter your brain, causing confusion and overwhelm.

They often have sleepless nights when their brain won't stop thinking about money and new ideas to grow their projects.

In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food — self disclosure causes increased activity in brain regions associated with the sense of reward and satisfaction from money, food and even sex.

Just like any filler word, «so» is used by speakers at points of uncertainty to stretch the time their brains have to think about the next point, response, or question.

You have to give your wandering brain a little help by consciously selecting something positive to think about.

Thinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of spoThinking about things you enjoy can be almost as effective as actually doing the activity which makes you happy: «the part of the brain responsible for feeling pleasure, the mesolimbic dopamine system, can be activated when merely thinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of spothinking about something pleasurable, such as drinking one's favorite brand of beer or driving one's favorite type of sports car.

«When I think about investing, my brain works a mile wide, two inches deep.»

We wracked our brains to think of all the very best tech we've tested or read about to bring you the best 100 tech gifts under $ 100.

More importantly, your brain needs time to shut down and think about something other than work.

I thought about the ability we all have to actually rewire our brain's synapses so the real results of repetition become an automatic and almost perfect replication of a defined goal.

Yes, Musk's choice of words was poor, but his brain is too busy thinking about Hyperloops and colonizing Mars to worry about how our puny human brains might misinterpret him, okay?

In fact, we almost can't help sharing our thoughts and feelings: Research also shows that talking about ourselves, whether in person or on social media, triggers the same pleasure sensation in the brain as does money or food.

What do you think about the future of innovations focused on the brain?

And while the 230 brains at Nautel could just sit back and enjoy their success, they're instead thinking hard about diversifying and evolving into other applications.

With the brain now at DEFCON 2, it's ready to think even harder about what comes next.

Perhaps the most common misconception about meditation is that it's an exercise in freeing your mind of all thought, as if it's a quest to find an on - off switch in your brain.

This is not about the power of positive thinking, says Marcia Reynolds, author of Outsmart Your Brain and training director for the Healthcare Coaching Institute, but about resources, the marketplace and the overall economy.

Long despised as a craft of the lazy and unproductive, spontaneous thought (including nostalgic trips down memory lane and fantasizing about the future) is now viewed by brain scientists as a critical aspect of healthy functioning.

That's some of the stuff that we thought about, that some of our families had the ability to think about: «What is going to happen to my brain 20 years from now?»

At the very least, you will benefit from stretching your brain to think about link building as a process with distinct steps for which there are specific tools.

If one of the independent variables in an outcome, (besides an actual act of god), is prayer, then think about it... you do have a brain, right?

The human brain's reflexive thinking about tribes and taboos blinds us to our stupidity and religion often capitalizes on that.

In the case of compulsive hand - washing, this involved a patient acknowledging that his hands were in fact clean (relabeling); attributing anxieties and doubts about his hands being dirty to a misfunctioning brain (reattributing); directing his thoughts and actions away from handwashing and toward productive ends (refocusing); and, lastly, understanding at a deep level the senselessness of OCD messages (revaluing).

I think that knowing what we do about what often happens to the brain as the person begins the final failures common in the dying process, it is likely that Darwin could have been coaxed into denying, by friends, and family, or even just frightened himself.

A bane because there is so much lousy thinking out there, for people who misuse their minds and don't «think» about the issues, or don't use their noodles effectively (the irony is that someone like yourself would say your brain is «god given»... in my opinion, this god would smack you upside the head for not using it as he intended).

Since there still is about 5 % of people who do not share the production of oxytocin in the brain, which has been called the empathy chemical, on stimulus which means they would feel nothing after stealing a childs candy because they are chemically unable to relate to the child and all they can think about is that they now have the candy.

Rabbi Neuberger asserted that «it's really important that one accepts that... new scientific research has taught us... that the human embryo is not as unique as we thought before... We do have to think differently about the «unique quality of human embryos» in the way that Peter Saunders is saying... The miracle of creation... may have to be explained somewhat differently... Our human brains are given to us by God... to better the life of other human beings... and if this technology can do it..., and I don't believe that anybody is going to research beyond fourteen days, then so be it, lets do it.»

Menial tasks give our brains time to indirectly think about our writing and work out the kinks.

To rationalize a belief in God or a non belief in God using one's rational thinking brain, prevents it from knowing anything about God.

Feeling joy when thinking abstract thoughts about God — that might not be positvely or negatively selected for since it doesn't affect your kids, but there is emerging evidence that it is a side effect of the way our brain is wired to process information, which itself is a product of evolution and will require picking up that neuroscience text to understand.

The most obvious use would be updating your Facebook just by thinking about it — no phone, no computer, just brain power.

However, if you consider that when your brain stops functioning, your thought life ceases to exist, then there will be no way to know that you were wrong about your god belief.

It takes a lot to overcome that kind of conditioning, but you can do it if you use your brain and think about it logically and honestly, without factoring in your preconceived ideas.

But Nagel (1970, pp. 217 - 218) believes that «a thought has no location at all»; Feigi (1967, p. 39) writes: «it is simply nonsense to ask about the location of a concept»; and Polten (1973, p. 55) even pretends «that physiologists certainly have not shown any necessary connection of memory with brain tissues and it is arguable that it can not be done in principle.»

The scientists then scanned the brains of their subjects while they thought about God and found that they used «similar parts» of their brains when thinking about their own and about God's beliefs, and a different part when thinking about other people's.

No doubt many Christians think that if Jesus only had known what we know about the brain, he would not have uttered such hard and hyperbolic sayings.