Cognition
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The term cognition is used in different ways by different disciplines. In psychology, it refers to an information processing view of an individual's psychological functions. Other interpretations of the meaning of cognition link it to the development of concepts; individual minds, groups, organizations, and even larger coalitions of entities, can be modelled as societies which cooperate to form concepts. The autonomous elements of each 'society' would have the opportunity to demonstrate emergent behavior in the face of some crisis or opportunity. Cognition can also be interpreted as "understanding and trying to make sense of the world".
René Descartes' illustration of mind/body dualism. Descartes believed inputs are passed on by the sensory organs to the epiphysis in the brain and from there to the immaterial spirit. See his Meditations on First Philosophy[1]
See also
- Animal cognition
- Cognitive bias
- Cognitive dissonance
- Cognitive linguistics
- Cognitive module
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive space
- Cognitive style
- Comparative Cognition
- Decade of the Mind
- Educational psychology
- Embodied cognition
- Epigenetics in psychology
- Functional neuroimaging
- Gestalt psychology
- Goal orientation
- Group cognition
- Holonomic brain theory
- Ideasthesia
- Intentionality
- List of cognitive scientists
- Molecular Cellular Cognition
- Numerical cognition
- Personal knowledge management
- Philosophy of mind
- Piaget's theory of cognitive development
- Santiago theory of cognition
- Situated cognition
- Spatial Cognition
- Theory of cognitive development
- Theory of mind
- Wason selection task