The brain doesn't pay attention to boring things.

The distance between a gene and a behavior is of greatest interest to me. The relative contributions of nature and nurture, of nucleotide and nuclear family, are perpetually fascinating to me.

Every brain is wired differently from every other brain, and learns in ways unique to that wiring.

You've got seconds to grab your audience's attention and only minutes to keep it.

To improve short-term memory significantly, reduce the stress in your life. And choose your parents wisely.

What's obvious to you is obvious to you.

A third or more of the brain is devoted to visual processing, not true of any other sense. We have color vision and it is truly binocular. This sophistication is not true of other senses, such as smell, where many genes are actually mutated and no longer work.