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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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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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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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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Embodied cognition is the concept suggesting that many features of cognition are shaped by the state and capacities of the organism. The cognitive features...
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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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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 journal Consciousness and Cognition provides a forum for scientific approaches to the issues of consciousness, voluntary control, and self. The journal...
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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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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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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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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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The evolution of cognition is the process by which life on Earth has gone from organisms with little to no cognitive function to a greatly varying display...
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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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Dynamicism (redirect from Dynamic cognition)
Dynamicism, also termed dynamic hypothesis or dynamic cognition, is an approach in cognitive science popularized by the work of philosopher Tim van Gelder...
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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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embedded cognition (EEC) is a philosophical theoretical position in cognitive science, closely related to situated cognition, embodied cognition, embodied...
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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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Quantum cognition uses the mathematical formalism of quantum probability theory to model psychology phenomena when classical probability theory fails...
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Psychology of music (redirect from Music cognition)
of understanding both music and cognition. Cognitive musicology can be differentiated from the fields of music cognition and cognitive neuroscience of music...
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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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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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Retrocognition (redirect from Retro-cognition)
postcognition or hindsight), from the Latin retro meaning "backward, behind" and cognition meaning "knowing," describes "knowledge of a past event which could not...
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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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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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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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Kant and the Platypus: Essays on Language and Cognition (ISBNÂ 0-15-601159-X) is a book by Umberto Eco which was published in Italian as Kant e l'ornitorinco...
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Cognitive model (redirect from Models of cognition)
representations are viewed as static structures of discrete symbols. Cognition takes place by transforming static symbol structures in discrete, sequential...
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Unconscious cognition is the processing of perception, memory, learning, thought, and language without being aware of it. The role of the unconscious...
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