Cognition

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Cognition is described as the the mental process of knowing, which includes the faculties of awareness, perception, reasoning, intuition and judgment.

Let us review how the lexicographers report on the use of the word, cognition:

  • the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. A result of this; a perception, sensation, notion, or intuition. [1]

Also see

  1. ↑ "cognition n." The New Oxford American Dictionary, second edition. Ed. Erin McKean. Oxford University Press, 2005. Oxford Reference Online. Oxford University Press.
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