Cognition Meaning
/kɒɡˈnɪʃ.ən/Definition, CEFR level B2, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounThe process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
nounA result of a cognitive process.
Sentence Examples
Cognition is a complex mental process.
Her cognition was impaired after the accident.
Cognitive science explores the complex processes of human cognition.
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Alzheimer's disease severely impairs a person's ____ and memory function.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge.
Word Origin & History
From Middle English cognicion, cognicioun from Latin cognitiō (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"That all our Cognition begins with Experience, there is not any doubt; for how otherwise should the faculty of cognition be awakened into exercise, if this did not occur through objects which affect our senses, and partly of themselves produce representations, and partly bring our Understanding-capacity into action, to compare these, to connect, or to separate them, and in this way to work up the rude matter of sensible impressions into a cognition of objects, which is termed experience?"
— 1838, Immanuel Kant, “Introduction. I. Of the Difference between Pure and Empirical Cognition.”, in [Francis Haywood], transl., Critick of Pure Reason […], London: William Pickering, →OCLC, page 3:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
Alzheimer's disease severely impairs a person's ____ and memory function.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
____ is the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge.