Cognition  

From The Art and Popular Culture Encyclopedia

(Difference between revisions)
Jump to: navigation, search
Revision as of 21:31, 12 January 2017
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

← Previous diff
Revision as of 21:32, 12 January 2017
Jahsonic (Talk | contribs)

Next diff →
Line 10: Line 10:
{{Template}} {{Template}}
-'''Cognition''' is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses." (Oxford dictionary) It encompasses processes such as [[knowledge]], [[attention]], [[memory]] and [[working memory]], [[Value judgment|judgment]] and [[evaluation]], [[reason]]ing and "[[computation]]", [[problem solving]] and [[decision making]], [[comprehension (logic)|comprehension]] and production of [[language]], etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.+'''Cognition''' is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, [[experience]], and the [[senses]]." (Oxford dictionary) It encompasses processes such as [[knowledge]], [[attention]], [[memory]] and [[working memory]], [[Value judgment|judgment]] and [[evaluation]], [[reason]]ing and "[[computation]]", [[problem solving]] and [[decision making]], [[comprehension (logic)|comprehension]] and production of [[language]], etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
The processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of [[linguistics]], [[anesthesia]], [[neuroscience]], [[psychiatry]], [[psychology]], [[education]], [[philosophy]], [[anthropology]], [[biology]], [[systemics]], [[logic]], and [[computer science]]. These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of [[cognitive science]], a progressively autonomous [[academic discipline]]. Within psychology and philosophy, the concept of cognition is closely related to abstract [[concept]]s such as [[mind]] and [[intelligence]]. It encompasses the [[mental function]]s, [[thought|mental processes]] ([[thought]]s), and states of intelligent entities ([[human]]s, collaborative groups, human organizations, highly autonomous machines, and [[artificial intelligence]]s). The processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of [[linguistics]], [[anesthesia]], [[neuroscience]], [[psychiatry]], [[psychology]], [[education]], [[philosophy]], [[anthropology]], [[biology]], [[systemics]], [[logic]], and [[computer science]]. These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of [[cognitive science]], a progressively autonomous [[academic discipline]]. Within psychology and philosophy, the concept of cognition is closely related to abstract [[concept]]s such as [[mind]] and [[intelligence]]. It encompasses the [[mental function]]s, [[thought|mental processes]] ([[thought]]s), and states of intelligent entities ([[human]]s, collaborative groups, human organizations, highly autonomous machines, and [[artificial intelligence]]s).

Revision as of 21:32, 12 January 2017

I know that I know nothing --Socrates

Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd  “In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson
Enlarge
Ars Memoriae: The Theatre (1619) - Robert Fludd
“In the illusory babels of language, an artist might advance specifically to get lost, and to intoxicate himself in dizzying syntaxes, seeking odd intersections of meaning, strange corridors of history, unexpected echoes, unknown humors, or voids of knowledge… but this quest is risky, full of bottomless fictions and endless architectures and counter-architectures… at the end, if there is an end, are perhaps only meaningless reverberations.” --Robert Smithson

Related e

Wikipedia
Wiktionary
Shop


Featured:

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses." (Oxford dictionary) It encompasses processes such as knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.

The processes are analyzed from different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of linguistics, anesthesia, neuroscience, psychiatry, psychology, education, philosophy, anthropology, biology, systemics, logic, and computer science. These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of cognitive science, a progressively autonomous academic discipline. Within psychology and philosophy, the concept of cognition is closely related to abstract concepts such as mind and intelligence. It encompasses the mental functions, mental processes (thoughts), and states of intelligent entities (humans, collaborative groups, human organizations, highly autonomous machines, and artificial intelligences).

Thus, the term's usage varies across disciplines; for example, in psychology and cognitive science, "cognition" usually refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological functions. It is also used in a branch of social psychology called social cognition to explain attitudes, attribution, and group dynamics. In cognitive psychology and cognitive engineering, cognition is typically assumed to be information processing in a participant’s or operator’s mind or brain.

Cognition can in some specific and abstract sense also be artificial.

The term "cognition" is often incorrectly used to mean "cognitive abilities" or "cognitive skills."

See also




Unless indicated otherwise, the text in this article is either based on Wikipedia article "Cognition" or another language Wikipedia page thereof used under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License; or on research by Jahsonic and friends. See Art and Popular Culture's copyright notice.

Personal tools