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. McMorranThe Millennial Caregiver by Rachael Piltch-LoebA Dovetale Press Adaptation of The Garden Party & The Doll's ... by Gillian ClaridgeA 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 Life Of A Psychic Detective by Nancy Orlen WeberКонституционный строй в России. by Андрей ПолеевEssays and Letters. by Andrej PoleevBerlin - Zoologischer Garten by Andrej PoleevHarvest. by Andrej Poleev
Enzymes book
17 books — 5 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
The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan KunderaFinite and Infinite Games by James P. CarseDat weet ik zelf niet  by Hella S. HaasseWhen We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín LabatutThe Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse
Books of Ideas.
6 books — 2 voters

Criss Jami
Whenever I think of something but can't think of what it was I was thinking of, I can't stop thinking until I think I'm thinking of it again. I think I think too much. ...more
Criss Jami, Killosophy

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

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