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Date: May 27, 2010

"But we tend to think that memory is objectively truthful, on analogy with a digital recording."

— Bloom, Paul (b. 1963)

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Date: September 2, 2011

"The 'will' in willpower is not some mysterious 'free will,' a ghost in the machine that can do as it pleases, but a part of the machine itself."

— Pinker, Steven (b. 1954)

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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

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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

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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)

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Date: December 31, 2016

"An ancient inner layer [of the brain], inherited from reptiles, was presumed to contain circuits for basic survival. The middle layer, the 'limbic system,' supposedly contained emotion circuitry inherited from mammals."

— Barrett, Lisa Feldman (b. 1963)

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The Mind is a Metaphor is authored by Brad Pasanek, Assistant Professor of English, University of Virginia.