Cognition
noun
The mental action or process of understanding through thought, experiences and senses.
The study of human cognition has advanced significantly in recent years.
Often appears as...
- human cognition
- cognitive processes
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General, Technical
noun
Knowledge acquired through mental processes like thinking, knowing, remembering, and solving problems.
Cognition is a crucial aspect in our ability to interact with our world.
Often appears as...
- cognition and learning
- cognitive skills
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Academic
noun
In psychology, cognition means all the mental activities associated with processing, understanding, remembering and communicating.
In our class, we learned that cognition involves a range of mental activities.
Often appears as...
- cognition and emotion
- cognitive impairment
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Academic
noun
The mental action or process of understanding through thought, experiences and senses.
The study of human cognition has advanced significantly in recent years.
Often appears as...
- human cognition
- cognitive processes
Usage tips
General, Technical
noun
Knowledge acquired through mental processes like thinking, knowing, remembering, and solving problems.
Cognition is a crucial aspect in our ability to interact with our world.
Often appears as...
- cognition and learning
- cognitive skills
Usage tips
Academic
noun
In psychology, cognition means all the mental activities associated with processing, understanding, remembering and communicating.
In our class, we learned that cognition involves a range of mental activities.
Often appears as...
- cognition and emotion
- cognitive impairment
Usage tips
Academic
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Pro Tip 1/3Holistic Understanding
Cognition encompasses not just logical thought but also experiences and sensory perceptions.
Her cognition of the music's complexity was rooted in both emotion and intellect.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Remembering
Cognition goes beyond memorization to include how we interpret and understand things.
His cognition of historical events provided a new perspective on the subject.
Pro Tip 3/3Active Process
Cognition is an active mental process, not a passive state of knowing.
Cognition enables us to solve complex problems in creative ways.
Pro Tip 1/3Holistic Understanding
Cognition encompasses not just logical thought but also experiences and sensory perceptions.
Her cognition of the music's complexity was rooted in both emotion and intellect.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Remembering
Cognition goes beyond memorization to include how we interpret and understand things.
His cognition of historical events provided a new perspective on the subject.
Pro Tip 3/3Active Process
Cognition is an active mental process, not a passive state of knowing.
Cognition enables us to solve complex problems in creative ways.
Pro Tip 1/3Holistic Understanding
Cognition encompasses not just logical thought but also experiences and sensory perceptions.
Her cognition of the music's complexity was rooted in both emotion and intellect.
Pro Tip 2/3Not Just Remembering
Cognition goes beyond memorization to include how we interpret and understand things.
His cognition of historical events provided a new perspective on the subject.
Pro Tip 3/3Active Process
Cognition is an active mental process, not a passive state of knowing.
Cognition enables us to solve complex problems in creative ways.
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The pattern behind...
And you hear a rustle in the grass. Is it a dangerous predator, or is it just the wind? Your next decision could be the most important one of your life. Well, if you think that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it turns out it's just the wind, you've made an error in cognition, made a Type I error, false positive.
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Measuring immeasurable...
live with disease every day for the past seven years I've been working with the online patient networker patients like me to help patients like Jess with MS here to measure her disease we constructed an MS rating scale consisting of seven simple questions about her cognition her speech her
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What are mini brains? -...
as well as how we end up with so many more of them in our cortex, the part responsible for higher cognition like logic and reasoning, than other species. Being able to grow brains in the lab, even tiny ones, raises ethical questions, Can they think for themselves, or develop consciousness?
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Chimps have feelings and...
have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition.
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Can a divided America...
and what are calming them down? That's a very dark proverb. You're saying that that's actually baked into most people's mental wiring at some level? Oh, absolutely. This is just a basic aspect of human social cognition. But we can also live together really peacefully,
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What separates us from...
with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non-human animals. So that we know today, they're capable of performances that would have been thought absolutely impossible
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Here's What We Know...
dolphins make sense of their world how do they perceive their world how do they conceptualize their world how do they represent their world how do they communicate with one another and that's what we're trying to look at in terms of cognition we're giving them
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A simple way to break a...
We call this cognitive control. We're using cognition to control our behavior. Unfortunately, this is also the first part of our brain that goes offline when we get stressed out, which isn't that helpful.
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Earworms: Those songs...
we'll use it as the starting point for a scientific odyssey that will unlock important mysteries about basic cognition. And if not, well, we can just shake it off.
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Genius Octopus Can Open...
heidi and i are playing around recreating an early one of these experiments into octopus cognition in 1959 a harvard scientist asked a
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The pattern behind...
And you hear a rustle in the grass. Is it a dangerous predator, or is it just the wind? Your next decision could be the most important one of your life. Well, if you think that the rustle in the grass is a dangerous predator and it turns out it's just the wind, you've made an error in cognition, made a Type I error, false positive.
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Measuring immeasurable...
live with disease every day for the past seven years I've been working with the online patient networker patients like me to help patients like Jess with MS here to measure her disease we constructed an MS rating scale consisting of seven simple questions about her cognition her speech her
Video examples
What are mini brains? -...
as well as how we end up with so many more of them in our cortex, the part responsible for higher cognition like logic and reasoning, than other species. Being able to grow brains in the lab, even tiny ones, raises ethical questions, Can they think for themselves, or develop consciousness?
Video examples
Chimps have feelings and...
have studied chimpanzees intensively for decades. We know the extraordinary cognitive capabilities that they have, and they also resemble the kind that human beings have. And so we chose chimpanzees, and we began to then canvass the world to find the experts in chimpanzee cognition.
Video examples
Can a divided America...
and what are calming them down? That's a very dark proverb. You're saying that that's actually baked into most people's mental wiring at some level? Oh, absolutely. This is just a basic aspect of human social cognition. But we can also live together really peacefully,
Video examples
What separates us from...
with large brains, are studied in captivity, modern technology is helping us to search for the upper levels of cognition in some of these non-human animals. So that we know today, they're capable of performances that would have been thought absolutely impossible
Video examples
Here's What We Know...
dolphins make sense of their world how do they perceive their world how do they conceptualize their world how do they represent their world how do they communicate with one another and that's what we're trying to look at in terms of cognition we're giving them
Video examples
A simple way to break a...
We call this cognitive control. We're using cognition to control our behavior. Unfortunately, this is also the first part of our brain that goes offline when we get stressed out, which isn't that helpful.
Video examples
Earworms: Those songs...
we'll use it as the starting point for a scientific odyssey that will unlock important mysteries about basic cognition. And if not, well, we can just shake it off.
Video examples
Genius Octopus Can Open...
heidi and i are playing around recreating an early one of these experiments into octopus cognition in 1959 a harvard scientist asked a
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John O'Keefe
American Scientist
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.
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Geoff Dyer
English Writer
We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.
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Goldie Hawn
American Actress
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
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Arnold Bennett
English Novelist
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.
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Daphne Bavelier
Scientist
You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.
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Amitava Kumar
Indian Writer
Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.
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Sebastian Thrun
German Scientist
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
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Brian Ferneyhough
British Composer
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
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Paulo Freire
Brazilian Educator
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
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John O'Keefe
American Scientist
Cognitive neuroscience is entering an exciting era in which new technologies and ideas are making it possible to study the neural basis of cognition, perception, memory and emotion at the level of networks of interacting neurons, the level at which we believe many of the important operations of the brain take place.
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Geoff Dyer
English Writer
We are moving beyond the non-fiction novel to different kinds of narrative art, different forms of cognition. Loaded with moral and political point, narrative has been recalibrated to record, honour, and protest the latest historically specific instance of futility and mess.
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Goldie Hawn
American Actress
What helps with aging is serious cognition - thinking and understanding. You have to truly grasp that everybody ages. Everybody dies. There is no turning back the clock. So the question in life becomes: What are you going to do while you're here?
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Arnold Bennett
English Novelist
There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
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Deepak Chopra
American Speaker
Our minds influence the key activity of the brain, which then influences everything; perception, cognition, thoughts and feelings, personal relationships; they're all a projection of you.
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Daphne Bavelier
Scientist
You can't compare the effect of multimedia-tasking and the effect of playing action games. They have totally different effects on different aspects of cognition, perception and attention.
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Amitava Kumar
Indian Writer
Mistaken identity, of course, has been the province of much postcolonial fiction. An important feature of this writing is the manner in which misrecognition has haunted all cognition.
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Sebastian Thrun
German Scientist
Nobody phrases it this way, but I think that artificial intelligence is almost a humanities discipline. It's really an attempt to understand human intelligence and human cognition.
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Brian Ferneyhough
British Composer
In any case, the fewer boundaries that exist hindering free movement between all forms of articulate human cognition, the better.
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Paulo Freire
Brazilian Educator
Liberating education consists in acts of cognition, not transferrals of information.
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