Cognition

auditory test to assess selective attention

theory of human visual attention

hypothesis of philosopher Jerry Fodor

organic computer

psychological process

A pretext (: pretextual) is an excuse to do something or say something that is not accurate. Pretexts may be based on a half-truth or developed in the context of a misleading fabrication. Pretexts have been used to conceal the true purpose or rationale behind actions and words. They are often heard in political speeches.

nature of meaning in the philosophy of language, semantics, methaphysics and metasemantics

bodily components, such as electrical signals, correlating to consciousness and thinking

hypothesis that depressed individuals make more realistic inferences than do non-depressed individuals

type of motivated forgetting when an individual consciously attempts to stop thinking about a particular thought

classifications that denote whether a term describes an object with a physical referent or one with no physical referents

the notion that a mind is composed of innate neural structures or mental modules which have distinct, established, and evolutionarily developed functions

perceptual effect of contrasting stimuli

thinking through visual processing

function of the mind involving awareness of three dimensions: time, place and person

cognitive bias of assuming the situation is a zero-sum game

psychological phenomenon observed in memory tests

cognitive bias

cognitive process that permits an individual to inhibit impulses and behavioral responses to stimuli in order to select a more appropriate behavior that is consistent with achieving goals

Any process in which an organism acquires a novel neuromuscular action or movement as the result of experience.

concept used in cognitive psychology to describe the way individuals think, perceive and remember information

process of hearing and understanding language

process of inferring the speed and direction of elements in a scene based on visual, vestibular and proprioceptive inputs

branch of cognitive psychology

ability

psychological defense mechanism

intellectual capacity

term used at the interface between neuroscience, cognitive science and philosophy of mind that has multiple meanings

Mind-wandering is broadly defined as thoughts that are task-unrelated and stimulus-independent. This can take the form of three different subtypes: positive constructive daydreaming, guilty fear of failure, and poor attentional control.

type of autonomous entity in software

psychological theory in which thought arises from both an implicit (automatic), unconscious process and an explicit (controlled), conscious process

a thought object that does not have an equal in the real world

Gestaltzerfall (German for "shape decomposition" or Gestalt decomposition) is a type of visual agnosia and is a psychological phenomenon where delays in recognition are observed when a complex shape is stared at for a while as the shape seems to decompose into its constituent parts. In plain terms, if a subject reads or hears the same term over and over, that term ceases to have any meaning. With regard to kanji, one study found that after prolonged viewing of one character, recognition of a subsequent one is delayed most when the two are the same size. When the subsequent character is a diffe

approach to processing events in software engineering, aiming to identify meaningful events such as opportunities or threats in real-time situations and respond as quickly as possible

thumb|alt=The differences between polytropism and monotropism|The differences between polytropism and monotropism Monotropism is an individual's tendency to focus their attention on a small or singular number of interests at any time, with them neglecting or not perceiving lesser interests. This cognitive strategy has been posited as the central underlying feature of autism.

thumb|right|Example of associations between graphemes and colors that are described more accurately as ideasthesia than as synesthesia Ideasthesia (alternative spelling ideaesthesia) is a neuropsychological phenomenon in which activations of concepts (inducers) evoke perception-like sensory experiences (concurrents). The name comes from the Ancient Greek () and (), meaning 'sensing concepts' or 'sensing ideas'. The notion was introduced by neuroscientist Danko Nikolić, but can be seen in examples in the Ethics of Spinoza (especially in the third part of the Ethics), as an alternative explanati

the meta-ethical view that ethical sentences express propositions and can therefore be true or false

Incomplete schema of object permanence

neural, cognitive, and behavioral effects of physical exercise

perceptional illusion

cognitive bias relating to mis-estimating success based on perceived difficulty

attentional phenomenon

subdiscipline of cognitive science

scientific discipline

Aristotelian definition of humanity

sequence of expected behaviors

thought disorder in psychiatry

losing spatial reference

influences between language and thought

Neuroenhancement or cognitive enhancement is the experimental use of pharmacological or non-pharmacological methods intended to improve cognitive and affective abilities in healthy people who don't have any mental illness. Agents or methods of neuroenhancement are intended to affect cognitive, social, psychological, mood, or motor benefits beyond normal functioning.

sequence of ideas expressed during a connected discourse or thought

biological relationship

bottom-up process to explain object recognition

social-psychological concept

in philosophy: an act of judgement where one term is subsumed under another

metaphor describing how thoughts seem to flow through the conscious mind

Perspective-taking is the act of perceiving a situation or understanding a concept from an alternative point of view, such as that of another individual.

cognitive process that matches information from a stimulus with information retrieved from memory

process of consciously redirecting one's attention from one fixation to another

study of how people reason