cognition
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"We found that the brain is flexible because it can reuse components of cognition in many different tasks. By snapping together these 'cognitive Legos,' the brain is able to build new tasks."
From Science Daily
Common hypertension medications can successfully bring high blood pressure under control but often show little benefit for cognition.
From Science Daily
Other gene snippets play a similar role in cognition.
From Washington Post
This, he says, is because it pushes back the threshold at which certain underpinnings of cognition might appear in life’s emergence.
From Scientific American
“If we want to have a comprehensive idea of how cognition evolves,” he said, “we cannot always be testing the same species.”
From New York Times
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