Date: February 28, 2014

"Imagine you could pry off the back of Wes Anderson’s head as if it were a vintage TV set and rummage around inside."

— Itzkoff, Dave (b. 1976)

Date: May 19, 2014

"These days we tend to think of memory as a camera or a video recorder, filming, storing, and recycling the vast troves of data we accumulate throughout our lives."

— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)

Date: May 19, 2014

"Like a text recalled from a computer's hard drive, each memory was subject to editing."

— Specter, Michael (b. 1955)

Date: May 23, 2014

"What he had demonstrated was that the nervous system was like a computer terminal through which you could deliver commands to stop a problem, like acute inflammation, before it starts, or repair a body after it gets sick."

— Behar, Michael

Date: September 1, 2014

"Reading for self-recognition is the default factory setting in most people's minds."

— Heller, Nathan

Date: June 6, 2015

"An emerging body of research suggests that exercising in a way that taxes your coordination, agility and balance -- a suite of abilities known as 'gross motor skills' -- rewires your brain in ways that are fundamentally different from straightforward aerobic activity or strength training."

— Hutchinson, Alex

Date: June 6, 2015

"The researchers captured data to assess their subjects' 'motor cortex plasticity,' a measure of the brain's ability to change its wiring in response to new stimuli."

— Hutchinson, Alex

Date: May 18, 2015

"In this view, mental disorders result from the shorting-out or disruption of the larger circuit wiring of the brain--and it is in defining and describing those circuit connections that Deisseroth's innovations promise to be especially helpful."

— Colapinto, John (b. 1958)

Date: June 27, 2015

"Descartes thought that the brain was a kind of hydraulic pump, propelling the spirits of the nervous system through the body."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)

Date: June 27, 2015

"Freud compared the brain to a steam engine."

— Marcus, Gary (b. 1970)