Cognition

A general term encompassing all the various modes of knowing and reasoning.


Activities or mental behavior that are not feeling or affectively oriented.


The mental action or process of gaining knowledge by using your mind or your senses, or knowledge gained in this way.


Mental faculty of knowing, including perceiving, thinking, recognizing, and remembering.


Intellectual ability to think including language, calculation, memory, reasoning, and social skill; tested by various neurocognitive screening tools for dementia, depression, and other brain disorders.


The mental processes by which a person acquires knowledge. Among these are reasoning, creative actions and solving problems.


Thinking skills, including language use, calculation, perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, learning, intellect, social skills, and imagination.


High level functions carried out by the human brain, including comprehension and use of speech, visual perception and construction, calculation ability, attention (information processing), memory, and executive functions such as planning, problem-solving, and self-monitoring.


Cognition refers to the mental processes through which knowledge is acquired. These cognitive processes encompass perception, problem-solving, and reasoning.


 


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