English > higher cognitive process: 1 sense > noun 1, cognition| Meaning | cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use. |
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| Narrower | decision making, deciding | The cognitive process of reaching a decision |
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| knowing | A clear and certain mental apprehension |
| linguistic process, language | The cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication |
| search | The examination of alternative hypotheses |
| suggestion | The sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association |
| thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation | The process of using your mind to consider something carefully |
| Broader | process, cognitive process, mental process, operation, cognitive operation | (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity |
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