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cognition

[kog-nish-uhn] / kɒgˈnɪʃ ən /


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Let’s stop treating working into your 60s and beyond as aberrant, and start planning for a workforce with 15 or more years of healthy cognition after traditional retirement age.

From MarketWatch • May 7, 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

Aerobic exercise improves mood, cognition and cardiovascular health while reducing inflammation and stress.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 3, 2026

The study suggests that achieving true language understanding may be one of the most important challenges in developing AI systems that can model human cognition more fully.

From Science Daily • Apr. 30, 2026

Perhaps the most common—and the most important—forms of rapid cognition are the judgments we make and the impressions we form of other people.

From "Blink" by Malcolm Gladwell




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