cognition
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“After the pandemic, I had a cognition that I didn’t need to live on either coast, quite frankly,” said Foster, who shares two children with ex-wife, “Orange is the New Black” actress Laura Prepon.
From MarketWatch ● Oct. 16, 2026
Similarly, the development of the neocortex, which is exclusively mammalian and, according to Lori Marino of the Whale Sanctuary Project, provides for “self-awareness, social cognition, some form of memory, problem solving.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 13, 2026
Their findings suggest that the condition of the brain's local communication pathways could influence how strongly gray matter loss affects cognition.
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
Recognizing someone’s face is a classic example of unconscious 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
According to hope theory, emotions follow cognitions, not the other way around.
From Time ● Jun. 17, 2015
The attitudes, cognitions, emotions, and personal values that comprise mental toughness develop as a result of repeated exposure to a variety of experiences, challenges, and adversities.
From Scientific American ● Mar. 19, 2014
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
These instinctive beliefs, which are, as it were, the first principles upon which all knowledge rests, are, however, indiscriminately called by Hamilton "cognitions," "beliefs," "judgments."
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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