Sample sentences for COGNITION

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the process of thinking

She thinks working on the puzzles improves her cognition.

There can be no knowledge without emotion. We may be aware of a truth, yet until we have felt its force, it is not ours. To the cognition of the brain must be added the experience of the soul.
Arnold Bennett
The idea was that if insight involves a fundamentally different type of cognition, then problem-solving by insight should recruit brain areas and mechanisms different from those recruited in problem-solving without insight.
John Kounios
This consciousness is a source of self-cognition quite apart from and independent of reason.
Leo Tolstoy -- War and Peace
But he believed he could prove their absolute validity by showing that in reality we are talking about the laws of human cognition.
Jostein Gaarder -- Sophie's World
It is the framework of cognition.
Neal Stephenson -- Snow Crash
In deep sleep, declare the Hindus, the self is unified and blissful; therefore deep sleep is called the cognitional state.
Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
Carmen says that the way Chicano English developed tells us something about language, cognition, and the human brain.
Robert MacNeil and William Crane -- Do You Speak American?
Then, in a wave of horror, he had one final cognition.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
One action of hers, however, brought him to full cognition.
Thomas Hardy -- Jude the Obscure
I think we are innately suspicious of this kind of rapid cognition.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
She wondered whether this was what one felt while awaiting a verdict of death: no fear, no anger, no concern, nothing but the icy detachment of light without heat or of cognition without values.
Ayn Rand -- Atlas Shrugged
Taking her from behind while she knelt, thrusting into the cleft between those smooth white globes, I suddenly clenched my eyes shut and, I remember, thought in a weird seizure of cognition of the necessity of redefining "joy,"
William Styron -- Sophie's Choice
It had not escaped me that a number of the books on Dave's shelves had titles with the word sex in them: Adolescent Sexuality, Sex and Cognition, Patterns of Sexual Deviance and —my favorite: Out of the Shadows: Understanding Sexual Addiction.
Donna Tartt -- The Goldfinch
Because we are often careless with our powers of rapid cognition.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
But we do, and if we can control the environment in which rapid cognition takes place, then we can control rapid cognition.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink
Some turned to watch her go, their blank expressions turning slowly to a foreboding cognition as she moved toward the door.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
The Hassassin smirked, clearly enjoying Langdon's sickening cognition.
Dan Brown -- Angels & Demons
They aren't always as obvious and spectacular as other breakdowns in rapid cognition.
Malcolm Gladwell -- Blink

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