cognitions

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“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

By following a mindful and accepting approach to my unusual cognitions, I have learned to live in harmony with my hallucinations and delusions.

From Scientific American • Feb. 3, 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

The mind itself supplies an element of knowledge in all our cognitions.

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 Cocker, B. F. (Benjamin Franklin)