cognitive functions
How minds work
Cognitive functions are the mental processes by which the brain acquires, processes, stores, and uses information.
These include attention, memory, language, perception, reasoning, and problem-solving.
The term appears in psychology, neuroscience, and medicine, often when assessing mental capacity: The test measures cognitive function in elderly patients.
Cognitive functions can decline with age, injury, or disease, and can be strengthened through practice.
- short-term memoryFleeting cognitive storage
- selective attentionFiltering relevant from irrelevant
- visual perceptionOcular sensory processing
- planningArranging for future events
- deductive reasoningDeriving specifics from generalities
sustained attention · hypothesis testing · inhibition · semantic processing · sensory processing · metacognition · divided attention · goal-setting · problem-solving · reading comprehension · impulse control · fluid intelligence · focused attention · depth perception · mental rotation · spatial awareness · processing speed · decision-making
- cognitionthinking, reasoning, thought, remembering, memory retrieval
- Socionicsquadra, duality, Model A, dichotomies, ESE
- brain regionscerebrum, frontal lobe, temporal lobe, parietal lobe, occipital lobe
cognitive functionsreflexes
Automatic physical responses
instincts · fight-or-flight response · startle response · unconscious processes · knee-jerk reactions
cognitive functionsbodily functions
Organism's automatic life operations
physiological processes · metabolic processes · metabolic functions · gross motor skills
cognitive functionsemotional responses
Affective reactions to stimuli
gut feelings · feelings · passions · sentiments · intuitions
cognitive, cognition, cognize, cognizance, cognizant, incognito, recognize, recognition, recognizable