cognition
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"If we can target that process, it might help with quality of life, attention, cognition and confusion," Macauley said.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 20, 2026
"But it carries major risks of spawning emotional over-reliance and distorted social cognition," he wrote.
From Barron's ● Jul. 15, 2026
In its final stage, a person can experience severe cognition issues and memory loss, as well as dementia, according to the CTE Society.
From BBC ● Jul. 8, 2026
Within the total costs, researchers found that the quality-of-life impact was greatest amid declines in cognition, function and independence.
From MarketWatch ● Jun. 24, 2026
Recognizing someone’s face is a classic example of unconscious cognition.
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
It presides over the acquisition of nearly all our cognitions.
From Lectures on the true, the beautiful and the good by Cousin, Victor
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