cognition

IPA/kɒɡˈnɪʃn/
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cognition — 名詞

1. the mental activities involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembe

1.名詞C1
釋義

認知

大腦獲取知識與理解的過程

the mental activities involved in thinking, understanding, learning, and remembering — the processes the brain uses to gain knowledge and work with it

例句

Dr. Okafor studies how cognition develops in young children as they learn to read.

Okafor 博士研究年幼兒童在學習閱讀時，認知能力是如何發展的。

collocation: cognition develops

After the car accident, the hospital tested Theo's cognition with a set of simple puzzles.

車禍過後，醫院用一組簡單的拼圖來測試 Theo 的認知功能。

collocation: test cognition after injury

常見搭配
  • human cognition
  • social cognition
  • impaired cognition
  • cognition and memory
同義詞
  • thinking

    everyday term for any mental activity; less technical than cognition

  • reasoning

    narrower — logical step-by-step thought, a subset of cognition

  • understanding

    focuses on the outcome of cognition — grasping meaning or significance

  • perception

    how we take in sensory information; cognition processes what perception gathers

反義詞
  • ignorance

    lack of knowledge, not a mental process but the absence of its result

用法筆記

An uncountable noun — do not use with a or an, or in the plural. Primarily found in academic, medical, and psychological writing rather than everyday conversation.

常見錯誤

The accident affected her cognitions.
The accident affected her cognition.
cognition is uncountable and does not take a plural form.
He has strong cognition in mathematics.
He has strong cognitive skills in mathematics.
use the adjective cognitive before nouns like ability, skill, or development, not cognition alone.

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常見搭配

名詞搭配

  • cognition research
  • cognition skills

常用片語

  • theory of cognition
  • the study of cognition