Cognition

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Definition

In Science, Cognition is In Science, Cognition is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge: attention, memory, judgement, reasoning, problem solving and decision making, comprehension of language, etc..( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cognition Wikipedia)

Description

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.