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Cognition

kog-NIH-shun

/kɒɡˈnɪʃən/

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cognition

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Mental processes involved in acquiring knowledge and understanding — including perception, attention, memory, reasoning, and language; the study of cognition spans psychology, neuroscience, linguistics, and philosophy

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