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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''' 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. | + | 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]]. |
| - | 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). | ||
| - | 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 [[functionalism (philosophy of mind)|functions]]. It is also used in a branch of [[social psychology]] called [[social cognition]] to explain [[Attitude (psychology)|attitudes]], [[Attribution (psychology)|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. | + | == See also == |
| - | + | * [[Cognitive biology]] | |
| - | Cognition can in some specific and abstract sense also be [[artificial intelligence|artificial]]. | + | * [[Cognitive computing]] |
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| - | The term "cognition" is often incorrectly used to mean "cognitive abilities" or "cognitive skills." | + | |
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| - | ==See also== | + | |
| - | * [[Animal cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Cognitive bias]] | + | |
| - | * [[Cognitive dissonance]] | + | |
| - | * [[Cognitive linguistics]] | + | |
| - | * [[Cognitive module]] | + | |
| * [[Cognitive psychology]] | * [[Cognitive psychology]] | ||
| - | * [[Cognitive space]] | + | * [[Cognitive science]] |
| - | * [[Cognitive style]] | + | * [[Cognitivism (psychology)|Cognitivism]] |
| - | * [[Comparative Cognition]] | + | * [[Comparative cognition]] |
| - | * [[Decade of the Mind]] | + | * [[Information processing technology and aging]] |
| - | * [[Educational psychology]] | + | * [[Mental chronometry]] – i.e., the measuring of cognitive processing speed |
| - | * [[Embodied cognition]] | + | * [[Nootropic]] |
| - | * [[Epigenetics in psychology]] | + | * [[Outline of human intelligence]] – a list of traits, capacities, models, and research fields of human intelligence, and more. |
| - | * [[Functional neuroimaging]] | + | * [[Outline of thought]] – a list that identifies many types of thoughts, types of thinking, aspects of thought, related fields, and more. |
| - | * [[Gestalt psychology]] | + | |
| - | * [[Goal orientation]] | + | |
| - | * [[Group cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Holonomic brain theory]] | + | |
| - | * [[Ideasthesia]] | + | |
| - | * [[Intentionality]] | + | |
| - | * [[List of cognitive scientists]] | + | |
| - | * [[Mind-body problem]] | + | |
| - | * [[Molecular Cellular Cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Numerical cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Personal knowledge management]] | + | |
| - | * [[Philosophy of mind]] | + | |
| - | * [[Piaget's theory of cognitive development]] | + | |
| - | * [[Recognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Santiago theory of cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Situated cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Spatial Cognition]] | + | |
| - | * [[Theory of cognitive development]] | + | |
| - | * [[Theory of mind]] | + | |
| - | * [[Wason selection task]] | + | |
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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.<ref>Template:Cite book</ref> 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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