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cognition

[kog-nish-uhn] / kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /


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Carmel said the class she took on ethics and cognition has helped her see her life experience through a different lens.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 30, 2026

Long before the modern GPU, computer-science legends like Alan Turing and Claude Shannon — the namesake of Anthropic’s large language model — used chess to model human logic and cognition.

From MarketWatch • May 23, 2026

Conditions related to heart and metabolic health, including hypertension and elevated body mass index, showed steeper negative associations with cognition among women.

From Science Daily • May 20, 2026

But something interesting showed up in the data as well: Despite the fact that sleep didn’t objectively improve, parents in the sleep-training arm reported less depression, less fatigue, better sleep, and better cognition.

From Slate • May 3, 2026

Taking our powers of rapid cognition seriously means we have to acknowledge the subtle influences that can alter or undermine or bias the products of our unconscious.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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