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
Inside of a Dog by Alexandra HorowitzOn Talking Terms With Dogs by Turid RugaasWhen Pigs Fly! by Jane KillionPlenty in Life Is Free by Kathy SdaoBones Would Rain from the Sky by Suzanne Clothier
Best Dog Cognition & Training Books
58 books — 8 voters
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Social Cognitive Neuroscience
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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
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
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Virginia Woolf
How then does light return to the world after the eclipse of the sun? Miraculously. Frailly. In thin stripes. It hangs like a glass cage. It is a hoop to be fractured by a tiny jar. There is a spark there. Next moment a flush of dun. Then a vapour as if earth were breathing in and out, once, twice, for the first time. Then under the dullness someone walks with a green light. Then off twists a white wraith. The woods throb blue and green, and gradually the fields drink in red, gold, brown. Sudden ...more
Virginia Woolf, The Waves

Criss Jami
When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them.
Criss Jami, Killosophy

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