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cognition

noun

Definition of cognition

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technical conscious mental activities; the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering disabilities affecting cognition and judgment

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Recent Examples of cognition Researchers recently proposed a Tri-System Theory of cognition, arguing that AI has introduced a third mode of thinking that exists alongside human intuition and human reasoning. — Alec Scott, Forbes.com, 31 July 2026 Previous studies have linked higher sugar exposure during pregnancy or infancy with childhood cognition, newborn brain organization, and memory changes in animals, Sullivan says. — Emily Kay Votruba, EverydayHealth.com, 29 July 2026 Unlike massive black-box AI systems, researchers can directly examine how the robot updates its beliefs, making the model a valuable platform for studying both human cognition and the mechanisms underlying language acquisition. — Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 23 July 2026 The first stage can start 15 to 20 years before any obvious changes to cognition. — Richard Sima, Washington Post, 21 July 2026 See All Example Sentences for cognition

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And the rest is public perception, which has shifted against what many Americans see as a dirty, archaic form of power generation.

— Trevor Hughes, USA Today, 9 Aug. 2026
Another problem human measures like dams and levees seem to have created, the team argues, is a perception of safety.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 9 Aug. 2026

Definition of perception

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Texture, depth and grainy intellection are absent.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.

— James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

Definition of intellection

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From there, our efforts to cybernetically steer the course of the world through imagistic reflection—via this mirror equipped with special eyelike features that is the computer screen—turn paradoxical.

— Jan Tumlir, Artforum, 5 Aug. 2026
By contrast, Murphy fashions the moment into a statement on trauma, with Bret’s reflections about his youthful naïveté mirroring some of the language of the #MeToo movement.

— Leo Lasdun, New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2026

Definition of reflection

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The researchers demonstrated the concept using signals whose characteristics changed over time, including handwriting and object movement at different speeds.

— Neetika Walter, Interesting Engineering, 8 Aug. 2026
Share the concept, invite feedback, or organize a group around something worth building.

— Tarot.com, Sun Sentinel, 8 Aug. 2026

Definition of concept

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Natalie’s is tuned to a distant, hierarchical afterlife where God’s love is less of an all-encompassing conception and more of an elusive, enviable prize.

— Heidi Stevens, Chicago Tribune, 7 Aug. 2026
Hamilton’s handprints were all over the project from conception to launch.

— Encyclopedia Britannica, Encyclopedia Britannica, 30 July 2026

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