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cognition

[kog-nish-uhn] / kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /


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"By studying an underrepresented population and looking beyond gray matter alone, this work brings us closer to identifying the biological and social factors that may protect cognition across the lifespan."

From Science Daily Sep. 14, 2026

Mr. Berg is founder and director of Reciprocal Research, a nonprofit organization studying AI cognition.

From The Wall Street Journal Sep. 13, 2026

Some studies also suggest that chewing can help with cognition.

From BBC Sep. 12, 2026

Participants in the SLI group had a 55% greater improvement on a composite measure of global cognition compared with participants in the FLI group.

From Science Daily Sep. 6, 2026

Perhaps the most common—and the most important—forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people.

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

Hope-related cognitions are important: Snyder and his colleagues proposed that a person’s level of hope leads him or her to choose learning or performance goals.

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

Kant himself regarded it as the most imperative demand of reason to establish a science that shall "determine a priori the possibility, the principles, and the extent of all cognitions."

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various




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