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cognition

noun

Definition of cognition

as in perception

technical conscious mental activities; the activities of thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering disabilities affecting cognition and judgment

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Recent Examples of cognition Perception leads to cognition, which in turn leads to action. — Benjamin Riley, The Verge, 5 Oct. 2026 New research linking mouth bacteria to inflammation, cognition and longevity is colliding with prebiotic formulas and portable formats reshaping a $55 billion industry. — Hanna Wickes, Charlotte Observer, 2 Oct. 2026 As recent writing on dance and cognition suggests, choreography is not simply a map of moving coordinates. — Sophie Landres, Artforum, 1 Oct. 2026 Her research focuses on creativity and creativity evaluation, as well as social cognition in organizational contexts. — Cynthia Lee, Harvard Business Review, 1 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for cognition

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Advances robot Intelligence Neuron AI is a robot foundation model designed to combine visual perception, touch, sound, language, and memory to help robots perform complex tasks.

— Jijo Malayil, Interesting Engineering, 16 Oct. 2026
In the race to build the most capable AI, the perception of which lab is ahead can change several times in a few months, as each major release gives rivals a new standard to meet.

— Beatrice Nolan, Fortune, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of perception

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The songs on Purdy also have the tone of journal entries, detailing haggard trips to the grocery store, daydreams about his young daughters’ glamorous adult lives, and observations about the banality of oppression.

— Dash Lewis, Pitchfork, 15 Oct. 2026
Matt Schnaars, president of platform distribution and partnerships for NBCUniversal, reinforced Shapiro’s observations in a separate session.

— Leo Barraclough, Variety, 15 Oct. 2026

Definition of observation

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Texture, depth and grainy intellection are absent.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 19 Mar. 2026
Despite appearances to the contrary—the swirling sentences, the feverish intellection—there is nothing hermetic about Krasznahorkai’s work, both old and new, which squarely faces contemporary European reality and its perils, including the tortured dynamics of settlement, movement, and identity.

— James Wood, New Yorker, 10 Oct. 2025

Definition of intellection

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The effects crew also rebuilt Rocky’s transparent xenonite barriers digitally to remove reflections, hide operators and maintain the complicated play of light through the set.

— Davide Abbatescianni, Variety, 18 Oct. 2026
But then the story stalls, zeroes in on some incidental detail, and collapses into a mode of reflection that is circular and recursive.

— Meghan O’Gieblyn, The New York Review of Books, 17 Oct. 2026

Definition of reflection

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Sympathy comes later, unleashed in 18th-century thought through Adam Smith’s Theory of Moral Sentiments (1759).

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Those 20 words--all but three of them single syllables--summon a flood of thoughts and images and memories and ruminations.

— Dana Kelley, Arkansas Online, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of thought

Noun

No accident that the likes of Lisa Yuskavage, Sasha Gordon, and Mulligan are regularly invoked in accounts of cringe-adjacent concepts like abjection, disturbance, disquiet.

— Eugenie Brinkema, ARTnews.com, 17 Oct. 2026
Precisely 14 years after launching the Sacramento Burger Battle, Rodney Blackwell is back with a new burger concept, as well as a new takeout ordering platform designed for small food businesses.

— Sean Timberlake, Sacbee.com, 16 Oct. 2026

Definition of concept

Noun

The window between conception and a baby’s second birthday is critical for brain development.

— Theresa Gaffney, STAT, 14 Oct. 2026
At various town hall events, Sand has cited biblical passages that can be interpreted as saying that life begins at breath instead of conception.

— Gabrielle M. Etzel, The Washington Examiner, 13 Oct. 2026

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