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| '''Cognition''' refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of [[intellectual function]]s and processes such as: [[attention]], the formation of [[knowledge]], [[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]]. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge. | '''Cognition''' refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of [[intellectual function]]s and processes such as: [[attention]], the formation of [[knowledge]], [[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]]. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge. | ||
| - | Cognitive 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]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Von Eckardt|first=Barbara | name-list-style = vanc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8l48-DZln0C&q=what+is+cognition&pg=PA13|title=What is cognitive science?|publisher=MIT Press|year=1996|isbn=9780262720236|location=Princeton, MA|pages=45–72}}</ref> These and other different approaches to the analysis of cognition are synthesised in the developing field of [[cognitive science]], a progressively autonomous [[Discipline (academia)|academic discipline]]. | + | Cognitive 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 [[Discipline (academia)|academic discipline]]. |
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“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
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Cognition refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
Cognitive 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.
See also
- Cognitive biology
- Cognitive computing
- Cognitive psychology
- Cognitive science
- Cognitivism
- Comparative cognition
- Information processing technology and aging
- Mental chronometry – i.e., the measuring of cognitive processing speed
- Nootropic
- Outline of human intelligence – a list of traits, capacities, models, and research fields of human intelligence, and more.
- Outline of thought – a list that identifies many types of thoughts, types of thinking, aspects of thought, related fields, and more.
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