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cognition

In psychology, a general term covering the functions involved in synthesizing information - for example, perception (seeing, hearing, and so on), attention, memory, and reasoning.



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) This direction towards an object is commonly regarded as typical of every form of cognition, and sometimes of mental life altogether.
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