cognition
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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
Each step is often assumed to correspond to a distinct brain function, moving from sensory processing to cognition and then to motor activity.
From Science Daily ● Aug. 25, 2026
Because we are often careless with our powers of rapid 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
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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