By studying how the brain reduces noise, we can learn more about how it processes sensory inputs, makes decisions and executes them. Understanding how noise is reduced to very precise commands helps us understand how those commands are created.


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I think Eros should be dirty. In Greek legend, as I'm sure you are aware, he fell in love with the m...
STEPHEN FRY
When his life was ruined, his family killed, his farm destroyed, Job knelt down on the ground and ye...
STEPHEN KING
Time takes it all whether you want it to or not, time takes it all. Time bares it away, and in the e...
STEPHEN KING
The most valuable gift you can receive is an honest friend.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
I don’t know if you’ve ever felt like that. That you wanted to sleep for a thousand years. Or ju...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something. It is the...
STEPHEN COVEY
Both Rowling and Meyer, they’re speaking directly to young people. … The real difference is that...
STEPHEN KING
And all the books you've read have been read by other people. And all the songs you've loved have be...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
We humans are naturally disposed to worship gods and heroes, to build our pantheons and valhallas. I...
STEPHEN FRY
The downside of my celebrity is that I cannot go anywhere in the world without being recognized. It ...
STEPHEN HAWKING
Hearts can break. Yes, hearts can break. Sometimes I think it would be better if we died when they d...
STEPHEN KING
Even a broken clock is right twice a day.
STEPHEN HUNT
The only time you fail is when you fall down and stay down.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
The scariest moment is always just before you start.
STEPHEN KING
The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because wo...
STEPHEN KING
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
STEPHEN KING
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
STEPHEN KING
Some birds are not meant to be caged, that's all. Their feathers are too bright, their songs too swe...
STEPHEN KING
He watched the young actress playing the central part of a wife who mistakenly believes her husband ...
STEPHEN HARRIGAN
[Prison Break is] one of the craziest, most unpredictable roller-coaster rides on TV today.
STEPHEN KING
It’s hard to let go. Even when what you’re holding onto is full of thorns, it’s hard to let go...
STEPHEN KING
On Friday night, I was reading my new book, but my brain got tired, so I decided to watch some telev...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I feel so miserable without you; it’s almost like having you here.
STEPHEN BISHOP
A tragedy is a tragedy, and at the bottom, all tragedies are stupid. Give me a choice and I'll take ...
STEPHEN KING
And people who don’t dream, who don’t have any kind of imaginative life, they must… they must ...
STEPHEN KING
It’s like when you’re excited about a girl and you see a couple holding hands, and you feel so h...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Remember to look up at the stars and not down at your feet. Try to make sense of what you see and wo...
STEPHEN HAWKING
When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, you...
STEPHEN RICHARDS
The discontent and frustration that you feel is entirely your own creation.
STEPHEN RICHARDS
Writers remember everything...especially the hurts. Strip a writer to the buff, point to the scars, ...
STEPHEN KING
So, this is my life. And I want you to know that I am both happy and sad and I'm still trying to fig...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
It is now my favourite book of all time, but then again, I always think that until I read another bo...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
Incidentally, I only have one cavity, and as much as my dentist asks me to, I just can't bring mysel...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I hate you.'
My sister said it different than she said it to my dad. She meant it with me. She ...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I wish I knew. It might make me miss him more clearly. It might have made sad sense.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I was suddenly very aware of the fact it was me standing up in that tunnel with the wind over my fac...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
He's a wallflower.
STEPHEN CHBOSKY
I was very grateful to have heard it again. Because I guess we all forget sometimes. And I think eve...
STEPHEN CHBOSKY