Date: 2006

"More generally, the amygdala acts as a radar for the brain, calling attention to whatever might be new, puzzling, or important to learn more about."

— Goleman, Daniel (b. 1946)

Date: 2007

"If Belinda's mind is like a whirligig of fashion or a camera obscura, where moving images are cast upon a blank surface umediated by a reflective or critical presence, then Pope supplies the ekphrasis suitable for such machinery."

— Lamb, Jonathan (b. 1945)

Date: 2007

"Cognitive scientists sometimes make the analogy that the brain is like a computer’s CPU, or hardware, while the mind is like the programs or software running on the CPU."

— Daniel J. Levitin (1957 - )

Date: July-August, 2008

"When the mechanical clock arrived, people began thinking of their brains as operating 'like clockwork.'"

— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)

Date: July-August, 2008

"Today, in the age of software, we have come to think of them [our brains] as operating 'like computers.'"

— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)

Date: July-August, 2008

"The human brain is just an outdated computer that needs a faster processor and a bigger hard drive."

— Carr, Nicholas (b. 1959)

Date: December 21, 2009

"The resulting mental freeze-frames are remarkably diverse."

— Hoffman, Jascha

Date: March 31, 2009

"Brains have long been compared to the most advanced existing technology--including, at one point, telephone switchboards."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

Date: March 31, 2009

"Today people talk about brains as if they were a sort of biological computer, with pink mushy 'hardware' and 'software' generated by life experiences."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam

Date: March 31, 2009

"Our colleague David Linden has compared the evolutionary history of the brain to the task of building a modern car by adding parts to a 1925 Model T that never stops running."

— Aamodt, Sandra; Wang, Sam