Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses all aspects...
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Embodied cognition represents a diverse group of theories which investigate how cognition is shaped by the bodily state and capacities of the organism...
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Cognition AI, Inc. (also known as Cognition Labs), doing business as Cognition, is an artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco...
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Animal cognition encompasses the mental capacities of non-human animals, including insect cognition. The study of animal conditioning and learning used...
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The need for cognition (NFC), in psychology, is a personality variable reflecting the extent to which individuals are inclined towards effortful cognitive...
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Nootropic (redirect from Cognition enhancer)
commonly advertised with unproven claims of effectiveness for improving cognition. The Federal Trade Commission and FDA have warned manufacturers and consumers...
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Distributed cognition is an approach to cognitive science research that was developed by cognitive anthropologist Edwin Hutchins during the 1990s. From...
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Social cognition is a topic within psychology that focuses on how people process, store, and apply information about other people and social situations...
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Elephant cognition is animal cognition as present in elephants. Most contemporary ethologists view the elephant as one of the world's most intelligent...
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for all of cognition: a unified theory of cognition, or cognitive architecture. The research started by Newell on unified theories of cognition represents...
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Epistemic cognition, sometimes known as epistemological beliefs, or personal epistemology, is "cognition about knowledge and knowing", an area of research...
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Quantum cognition uses the mathematical formalism of quantum probability theory to model psychology phenomena when classical probability theory fails...
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Perseverative cognition is a collective term in psychology for continuous thinking about negative events in the past or in the future (e.g. worry, rumination...
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Paranoia (redirect from Paranoid social cognition)
cause of paranoid cognitions is inside the head of the people (social perceiver), and dismisses the possibility that paranoid cognition may be related to...
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Metacognition (redirect from Meta-cognition)
The term metacognition literally means 'above cognition', and is used to indicate cognition about cognition, or more informally, thinking about thinking...
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Insect cognition describes the mental capacities and study of those capacities in insects. The field developed from comparative psychology where early...
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its processes. It examines the nature, the tasks, and the functions of cognition (in a broad sense). Mental faculties of concern to cognitive scientists...
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Computational cognition (sometimes referred to as computational cognitive science or computational psychology or cognitive simulation) is the study of...
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emotional state. Put simply, hot cognition is cognition coloured by emotion. Hot cognition contrasts with cold cognition, which implies cognitive processing of...
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Situated cognition is a theory that posits that knowing is inseparable from doing by arguing that all knowledge is situated in activity bound to social...
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Enclothed cognition has been described as the overall influence that clothing has on the wearer's psychological processes. The term was coined by Hajo...
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Thinking, Fast and Slow (redirect from System 1 (cognition))
Thinking, Fast and Slow is a 2011 popular science book by psychologist Daniel Kahneman. The book's main thesis is a differentiation between two modes of...
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Group cognition is a social, largely linguistic phenomenon whereby a group of people produce a sequence of utterances that performs a cognitive act. That...
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Augmented cognition is an interdisciplinary area of psychology and engineering, attracting researchers from the more traditional fields of human-computer...
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The concept of motor cognition grasps the notion that cognition is embodied in action, and that the motor system participates in what is usually considered...
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Comparative cognition is the comparative study of the mechanisms and origins of cognition in various species, and is sometimes seen as more general than...
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In cognitive psychology, spatial cognition is the acquisition, organization, utilization, and revision of knowledge about spatial environments. It is...
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Implicit cognition refers to cognitive processes that occur outside conscious awareness or conscious control. This includes domains such as learning,...
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Cognition and Emotion is a peer-reviewed scientific journal with a specific focus on the interplay between thinking and feeling, or cognition and emotion...
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Michael Tomasello (redirect from The Cultural Origins of Human Cognition)
on the origins of social cognition has led to revolutionary insights in both developmental psychology and primate cognition." Tomasello was born in Bartow...
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