cognition

[ kog-nish-uhn ]

noun

1. the act or process of knowing; perception.
2. the product of such a process; something thus known, perceived, etc.
3. knowledge.

cognition

/ kɒɡˈnɪʃən /

noun

1. the mental act or process by which knowledge is acquired, including perception, intuition, and reasoning
2. the knowledge that results from such an act or process

cognition

/ kŏg-nĭsh′ən /

1. The mental process of knowing, including awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.

Derived Forms

• cogˈnitional, adjective

Other Words From

• cog·nition·al adjective
• noncog·nition noun
• self-cog·nition noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of cognition¹

First recorded in 1375–1425; late Middle English cognicioun, from Latin cognitiōn-, stem of cognitiō “knowledge, a learning,” equivalent to cognit(us) “learned, known” (past participle of cognōscere “to learn, become acquainted,” from co- co- + gnōscere, nōscere “to learn”; know ¹ ) + -iō -ion

Word History and Origins

Origin of cognition¹

C15: from Latin cognitiō, from cognōscere from co- (intensive) + nōscere to learn; see know

Example Sentences

If an AI system can excel here, it will have matched an important dimension of human cognition.

From Nautilus

You write that language is endlessly creative but also our cognition is constrained by the structure of language.

From Nautilus

This finding seems to sit nicely with the more socially oriented idea of “cultural cognition,” touted by Yale law and psychology scholar Dan Kahan.

From Nautilus

Human cognition is inseparable from the unconscious emotional responses that go with it.

From No Straight News

“Mushroom bodies are mostly responsible for learning and cognition,” Gill explains.

From Science News For Students

Exercise improves not only physical fitness and health, but also mood and cognition.

From The Daily Beast

Thinking and cognition can be inhibited, with executive function demonstrating particularly notable challenges.

From The Daily Beast

He talks with doctors and scientists who study cognition, and cites a raft of research that bolsters his hypothesis.

From The Daily Beast

The more data these folks accumulated, the more automatic our higher cognition began to appear to them.

From The Daily Beast

Here are the four things cognizant people should know about the decade when computers mastered our cognition.

From The Daily Beast

The free play of the faculty of cognition which had been determined by Kant is also developed by Schiller.

From Project Gutenberg

He brings another argument to prove that Cognition is not the same as true opinion.

From Project Gutenberg

Both opinion, and cognition, consist in comparisons and computations made by the mind about the facts of sense.

From Project Gutenberg

Second definition given by Theætêtus — That Cognition consists in right or true opinion.

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If the man catches what is really a non-cognition, he will not suppose it to be such, but to be a cognition.

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