cognition.

The mental processes used to think, learn, remember, and understand.

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Words that belong together

• human cognition
• impaired cognition

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The experiment measured one aspect of attention rather than cognition as a whole.

Usage notes

Primary category: psychology / human behavior. Forms: Usually uncountable; technical plural cognitions for individual mental acts, thoughts, or beliefs. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, explanation. Commonness: moderately common.