cognitive — English Dictionary

Adjective

1. Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

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   Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.

2. Intellectual.

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   In the modern analysis of ideas it is generally accepted that the ideological content must be distinguished from the cognitive value, that the functional genetic conditioning of thought is one thing and its scientific legitimacy another.

3. Cognate; to be recognized as cognate.

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   • Obsolete
   • Rare

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   Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";

Noun

1. A cognate.

   Usage

   • Obsolete
   • Rare

   Related words

   affectivemotor

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   Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,

Adjective

1. of or being or relating to or involving cognition

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   cognitive psychology

   cognitive style