cognition
noun
the act or process of knowing; perception.
cognitions
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pluralof cognition.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
“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
Representative cognitions; or those in which consciousness is occupied with the relations among ideas or represented sensations; as in all acts of recollection.
From Essays: Scientific, Political, & Speculative, Vol. I by Herbert Spencer
