cognition
noun
cog·ni·tion
käg-ˈni-shən 
: cognitive mental processes
A concussion impaired the patient's cognition.
also
: a product of these processes
Examples of cognition in a Sentence
disabilities affecting cognition and judgment
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2025
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Early studies on chess players and physicists in the 1970s and ’80s helped show how the kind of flexible and reflective cognition often called critical thinking is really a product of expertise.
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Kate Wong, Scientific American, 20 Mar. 2025
In addition to the physical symptoms, dehydration triggers the release of stress hormones, impacts neurotransmitters, and disrupts cognition (thinking ability), all of which can contribute to feelings of anxiety or panic.12
6.
—Mark Gurarie, Verywell Health, 19 Mar. 2025
Early studies on chess players and physicists in the 1970s and ’80s helped show how the kind of flexible and reflective cognition often called critical thinking is really a product of expertise.
—Lightning Jay, The Conversation, 19 Mar. 2025
The neighbors — a group of computer savants and vegan activists committed to the study of human cognition, most of them trans women — moved box trucks on his land.
—Jessica Garrison, Los Angeles Times, 23 Feb. 2025
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“Cognition.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cognition. Accessed 28 Mar. 2025.
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cognition
noun
cog·ni·tion
käg-ˈnish-ən
: the act or process of knowing
Medical Definition
cognition
noun
cog·ni·tion
käg-ˈnish-ən
1
: cognitive mental processes
2
: a conscious intellectual act
conflict between cognitions
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