High level functions carried out by the human brain, including comprehension and use of speech, visual perception and construction, calculation ability, attention (information processing), memory, and executive functions such as planning, problem-solving, and self-monitoring
The process of knowing by thinking, comprehending, analyzing or evaluating Examples: Students use cognition to gain meaning from spoken or written material by reasoning, making inferences, seeing relationships, etc
Thinking skills that include perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, intellect, and imagination
Mental activity including the capacity to know, comprehend, understand, reason, and remember (See mental representation; phylogenetic model)
The conscious process of the mind by which one becomes aware of thoughts and perceptions, including all aspects of perceiving, thinking, and remembering
Cognition is the mental process involved in knowing, learning, and understanding things. processes of perception and cognition. the process of knowing, understanding, and learning something (cognitio, from cognoscere , from co- ( CO-) + gnoscere ). Act or process of knowing. Cognition includes every mental process that may be described as an experience of knowing (including perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, and reasoning), as distinguished from an experience of feeling or of willing. Philosophers have long been interested in the relationship between the knowing mind and external reality; psychologists took up the study of cognition in the 20th century. See also cognitive psychology; cognitive science; philosophy of mind