How to Use cognition in a Sentence

cognition

noun
  • The idea that video games can boost cognition isn’t new, either.
    Celia Ford, WIRED, 21 Aug. 2023
  • For the study, the researchers ran the young dogs through a battery of four tasks designed to test their social cognition.
    Alex Fox, Smithsonian Magazine, 3 June 2021
  • Now 19, Briggs uses a wheelchair, has the cognition of a young child and requires around-the-clock care.
    Patrick Marley, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 27 Apr. 2018
  • Searle meant to make a point about the limits of machine cognition.
    John Horgan, Scientific American, 9 Mar. 2021
  • These students were at lower risk on all four of the cognitions measured above.
    Mark Travers, Forbes, 21 Feb. 2023
  • Having more glial cells has been linked to more adaptive cognition, the researchers said.
    Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 4 Dec. 2022
  • The main constraint for all these tasks today is cognition.
    Otto Barten, TIME, 16 May 2024
  • But researchers don't know what these brain changes might mean for people's health and cognition.
    ABC News, 7 Nov. 2021
  • In fact, one of the patients’ cognition improved slightly.
    Linda Carroll, NBC News, 11 Feb. 2023
  • To get a better grasp of vocal learning and cognition, the study authors turned to songbirds.
    Jocelyn Solis-Moreira, Popular Science, 14 Sep. 2023
  • High concentrations of lead in the blood can cause problems with the heart, kidneys and cognition.
    Bydr. Rebecca Fujimura, ABC News, 17 May 2022
  • In the wild, they’ve been observed using tools—a benchmark of higher cognition.
    Emily Mullin, WIRED, 6 Oct. 2023
  • Getting out in nature is proven to boost moods and improve cognition.
    Country Living, 22 Mar. 2023
  • All of these changes have the potential to affect cognition and mental health.
    Alex Morris, Rolling Stone, 9 Sep. 2023
  • The goal with drugs such as donanemab isn't to cure the disease, but to preserve a person's memory and cognition for longer.
    Lauren Mascarenhas, CNN, 13 Mar. 2021
  • Our human abilities are thus challenged by the rest of the living world: Look at what your cognition has wrought.
    Amy Brady, Scientific American, 14 Feb. 2023
  • No one has any idea what these new facts imply for the evolution of human cognition.
    Quanta Magazine, 13 Dec. 2023
  • As Elaine’s cognition declined, so did Schreiber’s health.
    Rebecca Behan, Indianapolis Star, 16 Apr. 2018
  • But either way, 16 and 18-year-olds both do not have matured hot cognition, researchers say.
    Ashley Mizuo, Chicago Reader, 7 May 2018
  • The Biden press conference, which lasted for nearly an hour, was a night to celebrate cognition in the 81-year-old leader of the free world.
    Tony Maglio, IndieWire, 15 July 2024
  • In simple terms, Nooceptin works in 3 key ways to promote brain health and enhance cognition.
    Dallas News, 23 Aug. 2022
  • Even the compounds that cleared amyloid did not affect cognition.
    Sue Halpern, The New Yorker, 7 Feb. 2023
  • But there are so many misconceptions about the role of dopamine in cognition and behavior.
    Scott Barry Kaufman, Scientific American, 25 Oct. 2020
  • Adding some seafood to your plate of veggies will also help supply your body with cognition-boosting omega-3's.
    Caroline Picard, Good Housekeeping, 29 Apr. 2019
  • My mildly impaired cognition had a hard time taking this in.
    John Crowley, Harper’s Magazine , 4 Jan. 2022
  • Some of the classic symptoms are children who are tired, have poor memory and poor cognition.
    Gabrielle Emanuel, NPR, 9 May 2024
  • And this is the first time that such a study has shown that multivitamins can improve cognition in older adults.
    Jonathan Wosen, STAT, 16 Sep. 2022
  • Your anger over your wife’s choices seems to have affected your cognition.
    Amy Dickinson, Detroit Free Press, 7 Dec. 2021
  • The latest study, focusing on dementia, adds to a growing body of literature on regular or heavy cannabis use and cognition.
    Roni Caryn Rabin, New York Times, 14 Apr. 2025
  • In that case, both groups would have inherited the complex neural pathways that support cognition from a common ancestor: a lizardlike creature that lived 320 million years ago, when Earth’s continents were squished into one landmass.
    Yasemin Saplakoglu, Quanta Magazine, 7 Apr. 2025

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