cognitive
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
cognitive
- Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
- 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.
- Intellectual.
- (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate; which is to be recognized as cognate.
- 1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:
- Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";
- 1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:
- French: cognitif
- German: kognitiv
- Italian: cognitivo
- Portuguese: cognitivo
- Russian: когнити́вный
- Spanish: cognitivo
cognitive (plural cognitives)
- (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate.
- 1902, American Anthropologist:
- Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,
- 1902, American Anthropologist:
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