cognitive faculties
Thinking and reasoning
Cognitive faculties are the mental capacities that allow thinking, reasoning, perceiving, and remembering.
The phrase typically appears in discussions of mental competence or decline: The stroke left his cognitive faculties impaired, She retained her cognitive faculties well into her nineties.
Faculty here means an inherent ability or power of the mind.
- long-term storageKeeping things for years
- sensory processingBrain interpreting incoming stimuli
- spatial awarenessSense of physical positioning
- mind's eyeInternal visualization capacity
- selective attentionFiltering relevant from irrelevant
mental sharpness · working memory · train of thought · introspection · procedural memory · abstract reasoning · inductive reasoning · reflective thinking · inhibitory control · learning curve · decision-making · critical thinking · sustained attention · divided attention · hypothesis testing · logical analysis · motion detection · creative problem-solving
cognitive facultiesphysical strength
Bodily force capacity
bodily functions · motor skills · physical prowess · brute force · athletic prowess
cognitive facultiesemotions
Psychological feeling states
emotional intelligence · feelings · intuition · gut instinct · passions
cognitive facultiesinstincts
Innate behavioral tendencies
base instincts · reflexes · appetites · id
cognitive, cognition, cognize, cognizant, cognizance, incognito, recognize, recognition, recognizable