Cognition

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses."

It encompasses processes such as knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc. Human cognition is conscious and unconscious, concrete or abstract, as well as intuitive (like knowledge of a language) and conceptual (like a model of a language). Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking
How the Mind Works
Predictably Irrational: The Hidden Forces That Shape Our Decisions
The Language Instinct: How the Mind Creates Language
Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales
Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
Consciousness Explained
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
Make It Stick: The Science of Successful Learning
Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain
The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home
This Is Your Brain on Music
The Blank Slate: The Modern Denial of Human Nature
Mind in Life by Evan ThompsonDrop by Helen McKibbenThe Embodied Mind by Francisco J. VarelaWhat Computers Still Can't Do by Hubert L. DreyfusPhenomenology of Perception by Maurice Merleau-Ponty
Embodied Cognition
104 books — 38 voters

Moojag and the Lost Memories by N.E. McMorranA Dovetale Press Adaptation of The Garden Party & The Doll's ... by Gillian ClaridgeThe Millennial Caregiver by Rachael Piltch-LoebA Dovetale Press Adaptation of Sherlock Holmes by Gillian Margaret ClaridgeThe Unexpected Journey by Emma Heming Willis
Dementia Friendly Book Group Books
13 books — 4 voters
The Blindspots Between Us by Gleb TsipurskyAdapt and Plan for the New Abnormal of the COVID-19 Coronavir... by Gleb TsipurskyPro Truth by Gleb TsipurskyLeading Hybrid and Remote Teams by Gleb TsipurskyNever Go With Your Gut by Gleb Tsipursky
Best Cognitive Development Books
57 books — 75 voters

Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Inevitable by Kevin KellyThe Master Algorithm by Pedro DomingosWeapons of Math Destruction by Cathy O'NeilThrowing Rocks at the Google Bus by Douglas Rushkoff
2017 Baker's Dozen
13 books — 2 voters
Clever As a Fox  by Sonja YoergWhat a Fish Knows by Jonathan BalcombeAlex & Me by Irene M. PepperbergAre We Smart Enough to Know How Smart Animals Are? by Frans de WaalThe Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare
Animal Intelligence and Cognition
62 books — 25 voters

If the brain was simple enough to be understood - we would be too simple to understand it!
Minsky M.A.

Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth
As learning of our universe saltates: Cognition of our psyche auscultates (p. 73).
Robert E. Stansfield-Cudworth, Incipiencies: A Primitiae of Poetry

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