Cognitive Scientist Pillows

Caricature of Noam Chomsky

From tab A to tab B.

"Bark or stare? Always a tough decision. Bark? Maybe stare? Whimper? Maybe? Meanwhile, stare."

In the future, human thought will enter an age of clarity and purity never before dreamed of.

"Let me slip into something a little more thoughtful."

"Wait—what did I come into this room to do?"

Super Strength, Impervious to Bullets And Explosions

"Well, either you're hopelessly optimistic or hopelessly short-sighted."

"The overthinker"

Clever visual metaphor used to personify the abstract concept of thought and memory.

A cross section of the brain shows what a man thinks about.

"We had a brainstorm - I hope it's a brainchild."

"He doesn’t say much, but he thinks a lot."

Free-Floating Anxiety

"Most people forget they've had amnesia."

Human Brain

'I'm growing mini human brains from stem cells.'

Thinking Cap (a hat in the form of a brain).

How information mingles in our brains

Book store has a book called 'Mind Games,' which is floating magically in the air.

"The most obvious side-effect of having a chip implanted in my brain is a constant craving for onion dip."

"How come I can't remember what I forget, but I always remember that I forgot something!"

"Information is moved via neurotransmitters from neuron to neuron via the synapses into the brain where it is then retrieved by the memory via a slap on the back of the head."

"Let's see if I understand: your brain can't be upgraded with additional memory, and to make matters even worse, untold thousands of those brain cells die each day?"

A walking brain, with legs, and a head (or is it a mask?)

"How learning curves feel... Before: Holy hell During: I'm not gonna make it! After: That wasn't so bad! The next time: Again?!!"

"… and a big shout-out to my hippocampus, without which I wouldn’t be standing here saying words."

"What are we watching? I don't know. Some show on short attention spans."

Brain Bomb Detector

"I think, therefore I am depressed."

'Someday, when our pre-frontal cortexes are fully developed, we'll look back on this and shake our heads.'

'Your problems are caused by all-or- nothing thinking. It's either that, or you don't have any problems.'

"I totally meant to do that."

Traditional wisdom tells us that the brain takes on the shape of what it rests upon.

"Those are my medals in mental gymnastics."