cognitive
of or relating to cognition; concerned with the act or process of knowing, perceiving, etc. : cognitive development;cognitive functioning.
of or relating to the mental processes of perception, memory, judgment, and reasoning, as contrasted with emotional and volitional processes.
Origin of cognitive
1Other words from cognitive
- cog·ni·tive·ly, adverb
- cog·ni·tiv·i·ty, noun
- non·cog·ni·tive, adjective
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How to use cognitive in a sentence
Kevin LaBar, a cognitive neuroscientist at Duke University’s Institute for Brain Sciences, told Wired that there can be “distortions in time perception when you present people with threats.”
Workers did slightly worse on the cognitive tests and slightly better on the placebo task.
Please Get Your Noise Out of My Ears (Ep. 439) | Stephen J. Dubner | November 12, 2020 | FreakonomicsWe have also studied this through cognitive tasks and people’s ability to perform different cognitive tasks.
Are We Wired to Be Outside? - Issue 92: Frontiers | Grigori Guitchounts | November 11, 2020 | NautilusDangerous residential facilitiesVeterans needing end-of-life care, those with cognitive disabilities or those needing substance use treatment often live in crowded VA or state-funded residential facilities.
Eight reasons COVID-19 has hit veterans particularly hard | By Jamie Rowen/The Conversation | November 11, 2020 | Popular-ScienceAfter two or three doses of psilocybin, along with cognitive behavioral therapy, 80 percent of the subjects quit for at least six months, the investigators found.
Why they are so important for physically and cognitively disabled kids (and their able bodied peers).
Magical Gardens for the Blind, Deaf, and Disabled | Elizabeth Picciuto | October 22, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTLong-term users are neither cognitively impaired nor are the vast majority of users addicted to the drug.
Partly, how easy it is for us to process cognitively—the extent to which it fits what we already “know.”
How Psychology Explains the Slander of Trayvon Martin | Jesse Singal | April 1, 2012 | THE DAILY BEASTThe rich—as Murray argues in Coming Apart—are cognitively much superior to the poor.
When the dorsolateral PFC goes tilt, things go downhill fast, cognitively speaking.
The Science Behind Rick Perry’s Debate Brain Freeze | Sharon Begley | November 10, 2011 | THE DAILY BEASTThat alone is absolutely and indubitably present; therefore, it alone is cognitively certain.
Creative Intelligence | John Dewey, Addison W. Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George H. Mead, Boyd H. Bode, Henry Waldgrave, Stuart James, Hayden Tufts, Horace M. KallenUltimately such consciousness would seem to connect man cognitively with reality as a whole.
A Commentary to Kant's 'Critique of Pure Reason' | Norman Kemp SmithOr (we may proceed) do you hold that a past object is cognitively apprehensible, as begetting cognition?
The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha | Madhava AcharyaWord-processing is cognitively a different effort from writing with a pen or typewriter.
The Civilization of Illiteracy | Mihai NadinDoes the object cognitively apprehensible arise from an entity or not?
The Sarva-Darsana-Samgraha | Madhava Acharya
British Dictionary definitions for cognitive
/ (ˈkɒɡnɪtɪv) /
of or relating to cognition
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