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cognition

[kog-nish-uhn] / kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /


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Factory competes with startups like Cursor and Cognition, but it also counts the biggest AI labs—which have also created their own AI coding tools in the past year—as competitors.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 16, 2026

In a study published in the journal Animal Cognition in 2017, Chow’s team trained the squirrels to use touch-screen tablets to get treats.

From Slate • Jan. 25, 2026

"This is a key revelation because it explains how we adjust the durability of memories," says Priya Rajasethupathy, head of the Skoler Horbach Family Laboratory of Neural Dynamics and Cognition.

From Science Daily • Nov. 30, 2025

Cognition and memory decline until language and self-care are no longer possible.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 7, 2025

Bruno Latour, in an important essay entitled ‘Visualization and Cognition: Drawing Things Together’, which originally appeared in 1986, claimed that the printing press made facts ‘harder’; before printing, facts were too soft to be reliable.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton




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