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
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Dementia Friendly Book Group Books
13 books — 4 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

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 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
408 books — 492 voters


Jeff Vandermeer
But there is a limit to thinking about even a small piece of something monumental. You still see the shadow of the whole rearing up behind you, and you become lost in your thoughts in part from the panic of realizing the size of that imagined leviathan.
Jeff VanderMeer, Annihilation

Criss Jami
The exaggerated dopamine sensitivity of the introvert leads one to believe that when in public, introverts, regardless of its validity, often feel to be the center of (unwanted) attention hence rarely craving attention. Extroverts, on the other hand, seem to never get enough attention. So on the flip side it seems as though the introvert is in a sense very external and the extrovert is in a sense very internal - the introvert constantly feels too much 'outerness' while the extrovert doesn't feel ...more
Criss Jami, Killosophy

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