6 insights into the human brain and how it makes us who we are
if someone is struggling with schoolwork, it doesn’t automatically mean that they are less intelligent. Maybe they are not paying attention to things that don’t motivate them: “Humans are not neutral consumers of an external objective reality. Instead, we are actively engaging with the world in a way that loops how we learn, with what motivates us, how we remember things, what we feel.
We’ve all experienced the coupling of emotion and cognition in our day-to-day lives. Think of a time when you successfully regulated your emotions by reframing how you thought about your situation. A change in thoughts is often accompanied by a change in feelings. How we interpret things is linked to what motivates us, which is linked to what we pay attention to. For better or worse, emotion and cognition seem to co-inhabit under the same roof, with no intention of getting their own places.
The lens of “exuberant connectivity” suggests an infinitely more complicated picture of our biology. But authoring complex states and behaviors are among our coveted inheritances as humans. How fitting, then, that the richness of our behavioral and mental repertoires out in the world parallels the anatomical complexity of our brains.
Many thanks to Luiz Pessoa for his generous time and insights. Dr. Pessoa is a professor of psychology at the University of Maryland and the director of the Maryland Neuroimaging Center.. MIT Press.
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