cognition

His epistemology can be regarded as primitive materialist empiricism ; he believed that human cognition ought to be based on one's perceptions – one's sensory experiences, such as sight and hearing – instead of imagination or internal logic, elements founded on the human capacity for abstraction.

* How is cognition itself experienced?

* Does cognition have its own structure?

* Anomalous cognition

Other examples which have brought together ideas of cognition and landscape include studies of the cosmic order embedded in the roads of settlements.

After his death from cancer in 1941 his manuscripts were curated by his linguist friends who also worked to spread the influence of Whorf's ideas on the relation between language, culture and cognition.

Dependent arising provides a framework for analysis of reality that is not based on metaphysical assumptions regarding existence or non-existence, but instead on imagining direct cognition of phenomena as they are presented to the mind.

Bipolar disorder is defined by the presence of one or more episodes of abnormally elevated energy levels, cognition, and mood with or without one or more depressive episodes.

The short-term use of benzodiazepines adversely affects multiple areas of cognition, the most notable one being that it interferes with the formation and consolidation of memories of new material and may induce complete anterograde amnesia.

This meta-analysis found that long-term use of benzodiazepines was associated with moderate to large adverse effects on all areas of cognition, with visuospatial memory being the most commonly detected impairment.

Adverse effects on cognition can be mistaken for the effects of old age.

The benefits of withdrawal include improved cognition, alertness, mobility, reduced risk incontinence, and a reduced risk of falls and fractures.

The study of animal communication, called zoosemiotics ( distinguishable from anthroposemiotics, the study of human communication ) has played an important part in the development of ethology, sociobiology, and the study of animal cognition.

* Encoding ( in cognition ) is a basic perceptual process of interpreting incoming stimuli ; technically speaking, it is a complex, multi-stage process of converting relatively objective sensory input ( e. g., light, sound ) into subjectively meaningful experience.

# via conceptual metaphors as arising from characteristics of human cognition itself-categories are found via cognitive science and other study of that biological system

It examines what cognition is, what it does and how it works.

Cognitive science is a large field, and covers a wide array of topics on cognition.

Social and cultural factors, emotion, consciousness, animal cognition, comparative and evolutionary approaches are frequently de-emphasized or excluded outright, often based on key philosophical conflicts.

Cognitive scientists study memory just as psychologists do, but tend to focus in more on how memory bears on cognitive processes, and the interrelationship between cognition and memory.

Recently, especially in the context of cognitive decision making, symbolic cognitive modeling is extended to socio-cognitive approach including social and organization cognition interrelated with a sub-symbolic not conscious layer.

It has made progress in understanding how damage to particular areas of the brain affect cognition, and it has helped to uncover the root causes and results of specific dysfunction, such as dyslexia, anopia, and hemispatial neglect.

* Embodied cognition

* Situated cognition

Turing-scale robotics is an empirical branch of research on embodied cognition and situated cognition