cognition
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Your father may be acting out, which is not unusual for someone whose mental cognition is on the decline.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 30, 2026
“There’s the uncertainty that comes with the existence of something that resembles human cognition and the possibility that it could take away jobs,” she said.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 24, 2026
More research is needed to better understand the connection between creatine and cognition; but the supplement may be beneficial for brain health, particularly in older adults and for issues related to sleep deprivation.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 19, 2026
Similarly, the development of the neocortex, which is exclusively mammalian and, according to Lori Marino of the Whale Sanctuary Project, provides for “self-awareness, social cognition, some form of memory, problem solving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Taking rapid cognition seriously—acknowledging the incredible power, for good and ill, that first impressions play in our lives—requires that we take active steps to manage and control those impressions.
From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell
“There are intrusions of traumatic memory, there’s avoidance of salient reminders, there are negative alterations in cognitions and in mood, and there are alterations in arousal and reactivity,” Kaufman said.
From The Verge ● Apr. 27, 2022
“Up to now emotions and cognitions have been studied separately,” Suchotzki says.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2021
According to hope theory, emotions follow cognitions, not the other way around.
From Time ● Jun. 17, 2015
Such lightning-fast cognitions are possible partly because the brain makes certain automatic assumptions: it figures that light has traveled in a straight line from the object to our eyes.
From New York Times ● Nov. 17, 2012
Presentative-representative cognitions; or those in which consciousness is occupied with the relation between a sensation or group of sensations and the representations of those various other sensations that accompany it in experience.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
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