cognition

cognition — 名詞

1. the mental activities involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembe

1.名詞C1
釋義

認知

大腦獲取知識與理解的過程

the mental activities involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering — the processes the brain uses to gain knowledge and work with it

例句

Dr. Okafor studies how cognition develops in young children as they learn to read.

Okafor 博士研究年幼兒童在學習閱讀時，認知能力是如何發展的。

collocation: cognition develops

After the car accident, the hospital tested Theo's cognition with a set of simple puzzles.

車禍過後，醫院用一組簡單的拼圖來測試 Theo 的認知功能。

collocation: test cognition after injury

同義詞
  • 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

反義詞
  • ignorance

    lack of knowledge, not a mental process but the absence of its result

用法筆記

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.

常見錯誤

❌The accident affected her cognitions.
✅The accident affected her cognition.
💡cognition is uncountable and does not take a plural form.
❌He has strong cognition in mathematics.
✅He has strong cognitive skills in mathematics.
💡use the adjective cognitive before nouns like ability, skill, or development, not cognition alone.