cognition

IPA: kɑgnˈɪʃʌn

The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
(countable) A result of a cognitive process.

Examples of "cognition" in Sentences

Psychology is the study of behaviour and cognition.
Human cognition is the study of how the human brain thinks.
She specializes in the development of cognition in infancy.
Phrase is important, but cognition of the sentence is the priority.
Does everyone in ID think all this research into cognition is useless, a waste of money?
Behavior Therapy – encourage persons to behave differently can cause new changes in cognition
Bounded cognition is a huge problem for EMH — most people cannot actually grasp what is going on.
The Alzheimer's Association and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say all adults can take steps to improve or maintain cognition:
It should, however, be noted that there are similar difficulties in defining the term cognition Holyoak and Gordon 1984, p. 62, and, of course, rationality.
If there were any categories where blacks did better as a group, I think it would come down to comparability (i. e that cognition is not directly comparable because of different statistical strengths and weaknesses).
This is consistent with Wikipedia's definition: "The term cognition Latin: cognoscere, "to know", "to conceptualize" or "to recognize" refers to a faculty for the processing of information, applying knowledge, and changing preferences."