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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
Synonyms:
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("cognition" is a kind of...):
psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cognition"):
attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)
history (all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge)
information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)
cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)
structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)
perception (knowledge gained by perceiving)
process; unconscious process (a mental process that you are not directly aware of)
cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents)
equivalent (a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc)
cognitive factor (something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result)
practice (knowledge of how something is usually done)
lexicon; mental lexicon; vocabulary (a language user's knowledge of words)
lexis (all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function)
inability (lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something)
ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)
episteme (the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time)
general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)
place (an abstract mental location)
brain; head; mind; nous; psyche (that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason)
Context examples:
Pertaining to or characterized by cognition.
(Alteration Of Cognitive Function, Food and Drug Administration)
The portion of the brain located in the parietal lobe that plays a role in intersensory processing, language comprehension, and cognition.
(Angular Gyrus, NCI Thesaurus)
Researchers believe that simulation neurons are important building blocks for social cognition — they allow animals to reconstruct their partners’ mental decision processes.
(‘Mindreading’ neurons simulate decisions of social partners, University of Cambridge)
When L-arginine was injected into HSD mice directly, the defects in cognition were also rescued.
(Hold the salt: gut reaction may impair the brains of mice, National Institutes of Health)
"Prior research has found that inflammation, particularly in the brain, can negatively impact brain function and cognition."
(Body Mass Index Linked to Cognitive Decline, Voanews)
The officially recommended physical activity duration of 150 minutes per week was associated with significantly better cognition and less Alzheimer's disease pathology in ADAD.
(Rare Alzheimer's Disease Patients May Delay Cognitive Decline with Exercise, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
This ability, known as "abstract rule learning," is a signature of human perception and cognition.
(Infants Are Able to Learn Abstract Rules Visually, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)
The cognition scores indicating that no combination of nutritional supplements made a difference.
(Study shows no benefit of omega-3 or other nutritional supplements for cognitive decline, NIH)
This allele, which encodes oxytocin-neurophysin 1 protein, is involved in the regulation of smooth muscle contraction during both childbirth and lactation, cardiovascular homeostasis and complex neural processes such as cognition, adaptation and maternal behavior.
(OXT wt Allele, NCI Thesaurus)
Oxytocin also is involved in maternal-newborn bonding, cognition and many other psychological and physiological processes.
(Oxytocin, NCI Thesaurus)
