cognition
cognition — noun
1. the mental activities involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembe
the mental activities involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering — the processes the brain uses to gain knowledge and work with it
Dr. Okafor studies how cognition develops in young children as they learn to read.
collocation: cognition develops
After the car accident, the hospital tested Theo's cognition with a set of simple puzzles.
collocation: test cognition after injury
Keeping the brain active through puzzles and reading may help protect cognition in old age.
Sleep is essential for cognition because it helps the brain organize the day's memories.
Learning to play a musical instrument can improve a child's cognition and concentration.
- thinking
everyday term for any mental activity; less technical than cognition
- reasoning
narrower — logical step-by-step thought, a subset of cognition
- understanding
focuses on the outcome of cognition — grasping meaning or significance
- perception
how we take in sensory information; cognition processes what perception gathers
- ignorance
lack of knowledge, not a mental process but the absence of its result
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An uncountable noun — do not use with a or an, or in the plural. Primarily found in academic, medical, and psychological writing rather than everyday conversation.