cognitive enhancement
Sharpening mental faculties
Cognitive enhancement is the use of drugs, devices, or techniques to improve mental functions like memory, attention, or reasoning.
The term covers everything from caffeine and nootropics to brain stimulation and genetic modification.
Athletes have doping; students have cognitive enhancement.
The concept raises ethical questions about fairness, access, and what counts as authentically human performance.
- nootropicsCognitive enhancement compounds
- mindfulness meditationAttention training through observation
- focusConcentrated attention point
- deep workUninterrupted cognitively demanding labor
- spaced repetitionReview method using increasing gaps
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cognitive enhancementcognitive decline
Worsening of thought abilities
cognitive impairment · mental deterioration · brain damage · dementia · mental decline
cognitive enhancementsedation
Drug-induced calm state
thought suppression · tranquilization · dumbing down · mind-dulling