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cognition

noun

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Mental activity involved in knowing, thinking, perceiving, or remembering.

The course introduces cognition through exercises in attention and memory.

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A seminar examines cognition through a reader's effort to recognize a returning character, recall an earlier promise, and connect it with a newly discovered letter.

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