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
Sensorimotor Life by Ezequiel A. Di PaoloThe Embodied Mind by Francisco J. VarelaEnactivist Interventions by Shaun GallagherMind in Life by Evan ThompsonEnaction by John Stewart
Enactivism
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Thinking, Fast and Slow by Daniel KahnemanThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksHow the Mind Works by Steven PinkerThe Blank Slate by Steven PinkerThe Selfish Gene by Richard Dawkins
Best Cognitive Science Books
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Social Cognitive Neuroscience
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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

A. Jacobs
Nothing is wrong with you. Your environment has quietly changed.
A. Jacobs, The Age of Drift: Why Modern Life Feels Fake – and What Reality Drift Reveals About the Modern Mind

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