Editing Cognition (section)

{{Short description|Act or process of knowing}}
{{about|the mental process|the journal|Cognition (journal){{!}}''Cognition'' (journal)}}
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[[File:RobertFuddBewusstsein17Jh.png|alt=A cognitive model illustrated by Robert Fludd|thumb|A [[cognitive model]], as illustrated by [[Robert Fludd]] (1619)<ref>[[Robert Fludd|Fludd, Robert]]. "De tripl. animae in corp. vision". {{Abbr|Tract.|''Tractatus'' ('treatise')}} I, {{Abbr|sect.|section}} I, {{Abbr|lib.|''libre'' ('book')}} X in {{Langx|la|Utriusque cosmi maioris scilicet et minoris metaphysica, physica atqve technica historia|label=none}}, vol. II.  p. [[iarchive:utriusquecosmima02flud/page/216/mode/2up|217]].</ref>]]
'''Cognition''' is the "mental [[Action (philosophy)|action]] or process of acquiring [[knowledge]] and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".<ref>{{Cite web|title=Cognition|url=https://www.lexico.com/definition/cognition |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200715113427/https://www.lexico.com/definition/cognition |url-status=dead |archive-date=July 15, 2020 |website=Lexico|publisher=[[Oxford University Press]] and [[Dictionary.com]]|access-date=6 May 2020}}</ref> It encompasses all aspects of [[intellect]]ual functions and processes such as: [[perception]], [[attention]], [[thought]], [[imagination]], [[intelligence]], the formation of [[knowledge]], [[memory]] and [[working memory]], [[Value judgment|judgment]] and [[evaluation]], [[reason]]ing and [[computation]], [[problem solving|problem-solving]] and [[decision making|decision-making]], [[comprehension (logic)|comprehension]] and production of [[language]]. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge to discover new knowledge.

Cognitive processes are analyzed from very different perspectives within different contexts, notably in the fields of [[linguistics]], [[musicology]], [[anesthesia]], [[neuroscience]], [[psychiatry]], [[psychology]], [[education]], [[philosophy]], [[anthropology]], [[biology]], [[systemics]], [[logic]], and [[computer science]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Von Eckardt|first=Barbara | name-list-style = vanc |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=E8l48-DZln0C&q=what+is+cognition&pg=PA13|title=What is cognitive science?|publisher=MIT Press|year=1996|isbn=9780262720236|location=Princeton, MA|pages=45–72}}</ref> These and other approaches to the analysis of cognition (such as [[embodied cognition]]) are synthesized in the developing field of [[cognitive science]], a progressively autonomous [[Discipline (academia)|academic discipline]].