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Also known as thinking skill

activité mentale impliquant la conscience subjective d’un individu

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Thought refers to mental activities like reasoning, problem-solving, and remembering that happen in your mind without requiring direct sensory input from your surroundings. It matters because these cognitive processes allow us to judge situations, form ideas, imagine possibilities, and deliberately work through problems—capabilities that are fundamental to how we understand and navigate the world.

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Research

724,922 papers

Brain mechanisms underlying the inhibitory control of thought.ReviewNature reviews. Neuroscience · 2025Anderson MC, Crespo-Garcia M, Subbulakshmi SDOI: 10.1038/s41583-025-00929-y
Thought-Feeling Accuracy in Person Perception and Metaperception: An Integrative Perspective.ReviewAnnual review of psychology · 2025Vorauer JD, Hodges SD, Hall JADOI: 10.1146/annurev-psych-011624-024416
Thought suppression and psychopathology.ReviewBehaviour research and therapy · 1999Purdon CDOI: 10.1016/s0005-7967(98)00200-9
The neural ingredients for a language of thought are available.ReviewTrends in cognitive sciences · 2023Kazanina N, Poeppel DDOI: 10.1016/j.tics.2023.07.012
Clinically relevant aspects of thought across psychological disorders.ReviewCognitive processing · 2025Hammerdahl E, Vazquez N, Alperin BRDOI: 10.1007/s10339-025-01271-y
On the relationship between unprompted thought and affective well-being: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2024Kam JWY, Wong AY, Thiemann RF et al.DOI: 10.1037/bul0000428
Thought contagion? Conspiracy beliefs boost paranoid thoughts.Applied psychology. Health and well-being · 2024Molenda Z, Marchlewska M, Karakula A et al.DOI: 10.1111/aphw.12577
Language and thought are not the same thing: evidence from neuroimaging and neurological patients.ReviewAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences · 2016Fedorenko E, Varley RDOI: 10.1111/nyas.13046

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Wikidata facts

Subclass of: cognitive process
Has part: proprioception
Image: Herkulaneischer Meister 002.jpg
Said to be same as: thought

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Commons category: Thinking
topic's main category: Category:Thought
on focus list of Wikimedia project: Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4
studied by: cognitive science

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Au sens large du terme, penser est une activité psychique, consciente dans son ensemble (mais parfois incontrôlée), qui recouvre les processus par lesquels sont élaborées, en réponse aux perceptions venues des sens, la synthèse des images et des sensations réelles et imaginaires qui produisent les concepts que l'être humain associe pour apprendre, créer, agir et communiquer dans la réalité.

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