cognitive processing
Brain interpreting information
Cognitive processing is the mental work the brain performs to handle information—perceiving, interpreting, storing, and retrieving it.
The term appears in psychology, neuroscience, and education to describe how we think, learn, and make decisions: The task requires significant cognitive processing.
Processing speed and capacity vary by individual and can be affected by fatigue, age, or neurological conditions.
- sensory inputInformation received through senses
- stimulusWhat prompts a reaction
- short-term memoryFleeting cognitive storage
- divided attentionFocus split between tasks
- selective attentionFiltering relevant from irrelevant
deductive reasoning · planning · critical thinking · procedural memory · information overload · mental workload · encoding · emotional regulation · hypothesis testing · problem solving · decision making · pragmatics · sustained attention · phonology · morphology · heuristics · brain fog · thinking cap
cognitive processingreflex
Involuntary stimulus response
reflexive action · automatic response · instinct · instinctive behavior · knee-jerk reaction
cognitive processingemotional response
Feeling prompted by stimulus
intuition · gut feeling · visceral reaction · feeling · raw emotion
cognitive processingunconsciousness
Complete lack of awareness
stupor · mindlessness · brain death · coma · oblivion
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