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cognition

[ kog-nish-uhn ]

noun

  1. the act or process of knowing; perception.
  2. the product of such a process; something thus known, perceived, etc.


cognition

/ kɒɡˈnɪʃən /

noun

  1. the mental act or process by which knowledge is acquired, including perception, intuition, and reasoning
  2. the knowledge that results from such an act or process


cognition

/ kŏg-nĭshən /

  1. The mental process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.


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Derived Forms

  • cogˈnitional, adjective

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Other Words From

  • cog·nition·al adjective
  • noncog·nition noun
  • self-cog·nition noun

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cognition1

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English cognicioun, from Latin cognitiōn-, stem of cognitiō “knowledge, a learning,” equivalent to cognit(us) “learned, known” (past participle of cognōscere “to learn, become acquainted,” from co- co- + gnōscere, nōscere “to learn”; know 1 ) + -iō -ion

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Word History and Origins

Origin of cognition1

C15: from Latin cognitiō, from cognōscere from co- (intensive) + nōscere to learn; see know

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Example Sentences

If an AI system can excel here, it will have matched an important dimension of human cognition.

You write that language is endlessly creative but also our cognition is constrained by the structure of language.

This finding seems to sit nicely with the more socially oriented idea of “cultural cognition,” touted by Yale law and psychology scholar Dan Kahan.

Human cognition is inseparable from the unconscious emotional responses that go with it.

“Mushroom bodies are mostly responsible for learning and cognition,” Gill explains.

Exercise improves not only physical fitness and health, but also mood and cognition.

Thinking and cognition can be inhibited, with executive function demonstrating particularly notable challenges.

He talks with doctors and scientists who study cognition, and cites a raft of research that bolsters his hypothesis.

The more data these folks accumulated, the more automatic our higher cognition began to appear to them.

Here are the four things cognizant people should know about the decade when computers mastered our cognition.

The free play of the faculty of cognition which had been determined by Kant is also developed by Schiller.

He brings another argument to prove that Cognition is not the same as true opinion.

Both opinion, and cognition, consist in comparisons and computations made by the mind about the facts of sense.

Second definition given by Theætêtus — That Cognition consists in right or true opinion.

If the man catches what is really a non-cognition, he will not suppose it to be such, but to be a cognition.

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