COGNITION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does cognition mean? 

• COGNITION (noun)
  The noun COGNITION has 1 sense:

1. the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

  Familiarity information: COGNITION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COGNITION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Classified under:

Nouns with no superordinates

Synonyms:

cognition; knowledge; noesis

Hypernyms ("cognition" is a kind of...):

psychological feature (a feature of the mental life of a living organism)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "cognition"):

cognitive factor (something immaterial (as a circumstance or influence) that contributes to producing a result)

attitude; mental attitude (a complex mental state involving beliefs and feelings and values and dispositions to act in certain ways)

history (all that is remembered of the past as preserved in writing; a body of knowledge)

information (knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction)

cognitive content; content; mental object (the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned)

structure (the complex composition of knowledge as elements and their combinations)

perception (knowledge gained by perceiving)

process; unconscious process (a mental process that you are not directly aware of)

cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents)

equivalent (a person or thing equal to another in value or measure or force or effect or significance etc)

brain; head; mind; nous; psyche (that which is responsible for one's thoughts, feelings, and conscious brain functions; the seat of the faculty of reason)

practice (knowledge of how something is usually done)

lexicon; mental lexicon; vocabulary (a language user's knowledge of words)

lexis (all of the words in a language; all word forms having meaning or grammatical function)

inability (lack of ability (especially mental ability) to do something)

ability; power (possession of the qualities (especially mental qualities) required to do something or get something done)

episteme (the body of ideas that determine the knowledge that is intellectually certain at any particular time)

general knowledge; public knowledge (knowledge that is available to anyone)

place (an abstract mental location)

 Context examples 

To examine the potential link between klotho and cognition, Dr. Dena Dubal of the University of California, San Francisco, and her colleagues focused on a Klotho variant called KL-VS.

(Longevity gene linked to better brain skills, NIH, US)

This information may be useful for developing approaches to improve social cognition in people with autism.

(Oxytocin affects facial recognition, NIH)

Severe hyponatremia has been linked with cognitive impairment and neurological disturbances, but the association between different levels of serum sodium and cognition in older adults had been uncertain.

(Blood Sodium Levels May Affect Cognition in Older Adults, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Sleep is essential for both cognition and maintenance of healthy brain function, and slow waves in neural activity contribute to memory consolidation, a study published Thursday in the peer-reviewed journal Science concluded.

(Deep Sleep May Play Role in Preventing Alzheimer’s Disease, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

The researchers did not find a significant effect on memory or cognition from hormone treatment.

(Hormone treatment studied in older men, NIH)

The substantial gains observed in memory and cognition were maintained or further increased at 6 months (3 months post-intervention).

(Meditation, Music May Help Reverse Early Memory Loss in Adults, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

A category of psychiatric disorders which are characterized by a deficit in cognition or memory.

(Cognitive Disorder, NCI Thesaurus)

Cognition and visuospatial processing are its main functions.

(Parietal Lobe, NCI Thesaurus)

Of or being or relating to or involving cognition.

(Cognitive, NCI Thesaurus)

A group of disorders affecting the development of movement and posture, often accompanied by disturbances of sensation, perception, cognition, and behavior.

(Cerebral Palsy, NCI Thesaurus)