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cognition

[kog-nish-uhn] / kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /


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When superficial white matter was healthier, the link between gray matter loss and poorer cognition was weaker.

From Science Daily ● Sep. 14, 2026

Participants also underwent assessments covering several areas of cognition, including language, memory, executive function, and visuospatial ability.

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

Some studies also suggest that chewing can help with cognition.

From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026

Taking rapid cognition seriously—acknowledging the incredible power, for good and ill, that first impressions play in our lives—requires that we take active steps to manage and control those impressions.

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

Kant himself regarded it as the most imperative demand of reason to establish a science that shall "determine a priori the possibility, the principles, and the extent of all cognitions."

From International Congress of Arts and Science, Volume I Philosophy and Metaphysics by Various




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