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Daniel Levitin
Daniel Levitin
American Scientist
Born: Dec 27, 1957
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I have never seen a proton or electron spinning around it. I have never actually seen a chromosome. I trust that they exist because people who I trust tell me they do. Daniel Levitin
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If we are to appropriate money for roads, we need statistics on how bad our roads really are and, moreover, where more roads will be beneficial - it would be irresponsible to just build them where our gut tells us to. Daniel Levitin
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The left brain is responsible for making order out of chaos, for making sense of things in the world that don't always add up. To do this, it often makes up stories, fantastic confabulations in some cases, just to be able to explain what we're experiencing. Daniel Levitin
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Maybe instead of asking political candidates to submit tax returns, we really should be asking to see their brain scans. Daniel Levitin
Political Submit See Instead Returns Brain Candidates Maybe Tax Tax Returns Asking Really Should
There are people from lots of different fields in my department. In my lab, they come from computer science, education, psychophysics, psychology, music - and we all work together, and it feels very comfortable. All the careers I've had have been interdisciplinary; working in a studio is like being an engineer and a musician and a therapist. Daniel Levitin
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Evolution doesn't just look for things that are fun; if it did, we'd know how to fly. Daniel Levitin
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If you aren't taking regular breaks every couple of hours, your brain won't benefit from that extra cup of coffee. Daniel Levitin
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I became interested in structure when I was in graduate school. How is it that the brain perceives structure in a sometimes disorganized and chaotic world? How and why do we categorize things? Why can things be categorized in so many different ways, all of which can seem equally valid? Daniel Levitin
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I believe in an informed electorate, and we need to teach our children to become informed enough to have opinions on world issues or, at least, to understand what the major issues are and who the players are. Daniel Levitin
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Across a range of inferences involving not just language but mathematics, logic problems, and spatial reasoning, sleep has been shown to enhance the formation and understanding of abstract relations, so much so that people often wake having solved a problem that was unsolvable the night before. Daniel Levitin
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Because our ancestors lived in social groups that changed slowly, because they encountered the same people throughout their lives, they could keep almost every social detail they needed to know in their heads. Daniel Levitin
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People who organize their time in a way that allows them to focus are not only going to get more done, but they'll be less tired and less neurochemically depleted after doing it. Daniel Levitin
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Lies are an absence of facts and, in many cases, a direct contradiction of them. Daniel Levitin
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I'm a simple country neuroscientist, not an expert on democracy, but I do know something about how the brain works and how opinion-reinforcing bubbles can distort the picture of reality we build from the information we encounter on a daily basis. Daniel Levitin
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Anything you care about, from vacation plans to exercise to the best Ethiopian restaurant, is going to be guided by your individual search history. Daniel Levitin
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Our to-do lists are so full that we can't hope to complete every item on them. So what do we do? We multitask, juggling several things at once, trying to keep up by keeping busy. Daniel Levitin
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If you're studying from a book and trying to listen in on a conversation at the same time, those are two separate projects, each started and maintained by distinct circuits in the brain. Pay more attention to one for a moment and you're automatically paying less attention to the other. Daniel Levitin
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We need to support the media by subscribing to newspapers and magazines and supporting their advertisers to stay in business. And we need to be less greedy and allow journalists to take the time to pull the story together. Daniel Levitin
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I reject the notion of a post-truth area. I don't believe there is such a thing, and we shouldn't accept that. Daniel Levitin
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The rest-seeking procrastinators would generally rather not exert themselves at all, while the fun-task procrastinators enjoy being busy and active all the time but have a hard time starting things that are not so amusing. Daniel Levitin
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Neurons are living cells with a metabolism. And they need glucose in order to function. Glucose is the fuel of the brain, just like gasoline is the fuel of your car. Daniel Levitin
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Singing and dancing have been shown to modulate brain chemistry, specifically levels of dopamine, the 'feel good' neurotransmitter. Daniel Levitin
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Unfortunately, often found next to things that are true are an enormous number of things that are not - in websites, videos, books and on social media. Daniel Levitin
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