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cognition

[kog-nish-uhn] / kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /


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According to Dr. Meynecke, these rare and deeply sad encounters could help scientists better understand how large whales process death and what their behavior may reveal about cognition and emotion.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 22, 2026

Thirty days later, the treated mice had improvements in skin thickness and bone mass, along with better performance on tests of learning, cognition, and balance.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 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

They aren’t always as obvious and spectacular as other breakdowns in 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

Plato held that all our cognitions are reducible to two elements--one derived from sense, the other from pure reason; one element particular, contingent, and relative, the other universal, necessary, and absolute.

From Christianity and Greek Philosophy or, the relation between spontaneous and reflective thought in Greece and the positive teaching of Christ and His Apostles by B. F. (Benjamin Franklin) Cocker




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