{"id":26460,"date":"2020-07-06T08:13:50","date_gmt":"2020-07-06T08:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/?p=26460"},"modified":"2023-07-16T09:42:30","modified_gmt":"2023-07-16T09:42:30","slug":"cognition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.healthbenefitstimes.com\/glossary\/cognition\/","title":{"rendered":"Cognition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A general term encompassing all the various modes of knowing and reasoning.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Activities or mental behavior that are not feeling or affectively oriented.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The mental action or process of gaining knowledge by using your mind or your senses, or knowledge gained in this way.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Mental faculty of knowing, including perceiving, thinking, recognizing, and remembering.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Intellectual ability to think including language, calculation, memory, reasoning, and social skill; tested by various neurocognitive screening tools for dementia, depression, and other brain disorders.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The mental processes by which a person acquires knowledge. Among these are reasoning, creative actions and solving problems.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Thinking skills, including language use, calculation, perception, memory, awareness, reasoning, judgment, learning, intellect, social skills, and imagination.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>High level functions carried out by the human brain, including comprehension and use of speech, visual perception and construction, calculation ability, attention (information processing), memory, and executive functions such as planning, problem-solving, and self-monitoring.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<div class=\"group w-full text-gray-800 dark:text-gray-100 border-b border-black\/10 dark:border-gray-900\/50 bg-gray-50 dark:bg-[#444654] sm:AIPRM__conversation__response\">\n<div class=\"flex p-4 gap-4 text-base md:gap-6 md:max-w-2xl lg:max-w-[38rem] xl:max-w-3xl md:py-6 lg:px-0 m-auto\">\n<div class=\"relative flex w-[calc(100%-50px)] flex-col gap-1 md:gap-3 lg:w-[calc(100%-115px)]\">\n<div class=\"flex flex-grow flex-col gap-3\">\n<div class=\"min-h-[20px] flex items-start overflow-x-auto whitespace-pre-wrap break-words flex-col gap-4\">\n<div class=\"markdown prose w-full break-words dark:prose-invert light AIPRM__conversation__response\">\n<p>Cognition refers to the mental processes through which knowledge is acquired. 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