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Definition
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