cognition
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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
Thirty days later, the treated mice had improvements in skin thickness and bone mass, along with better performance on tests of learning, cognition, and balance.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 18, 2026
"By studying an underrepresented population and looking beyond gray matter alone, this work brings us closer to identifying the biological and social factors that may protect cognition across the lifespan."
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
In that moment in the Gulf, Red Team’s powers of rapid cognition were intact—and Blue Team’s were not.
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
“Up to now emotions and cognitions have been studied separately,” Suchotzki says.
From Scientific American ● Feb. 9, 2021
Hope-related cognitions are important: Snyder and his colleagues proposed that a person’s level of hope leads him or her to choose learning or performance goals.
From Time ● Jun. 17, 2015
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
He taught him to distinguish in all cognitions, and especially in the simplest facts of consciousness, the fact of voluntary activity, that activity in which our personality is truly revealed.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 7, Slice 6 "Coucy-le-Château" to "Crocodile" by Various
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