Contents

English

Etymology

< Middle English cognicion < Latin cognitio (“‘knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial’”) < cognitus, pp. of cognoscere (“‘to know’”) < co- (“‘together’”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“‘to know’”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.

Pronunciation

Noun

Wikipedia has an article on: Cognition

Singular cognition

Plural countable and uncountable; plural cognitions

cognition (countable and uncountable; plural cognitions)

  1. The process of knowing.
  2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

Related terms

terms related to cognition

Derived terms

External links

Anagrams

 

The above information uses material from Wiktionary and is licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.
Some facts may not have been fully verified for accuracy. [Disclaimers]
This page was last archived by our server on Sat Oct 17 09:25:18 2009. [ refresh local cache ]
Displaying this page or its contents does not use any Wikimedia Foundation's resources.
The owners of this site proudly support the Wikimedia Foundation.


Girl Brain, Boy Brain? - Scientific American
news.google.com
Girl Brain, Boy Brain?

Scientific American

Social cognition is one realm in which the search for brain sex differences should be especially fruitful. Females of all ages outperform males on tests ...
Google News Search: cognition,
Tue Sep 22 17:46:37 2009