Human cognition does not emerge from a single brain region but depends on a team effort involving multiple brain networks.
It is becoming increasingly clear that
human cognition does not consist simply in the registering of data from the world outside.
Not exact matches
Although genes are recognized as influencing behavior and
cognition, «genetically identical»
does not mean altogether identical; almost no one would deny that identical twins, despite being natural
human clones with identical DNA, are separate people, with separate experiences and not altogether overlapping personalities.
Implicit in my assertion that computers will eventually be capable of the same kind of perception,
cognition and thought as
humans is the idea that a sufciently advanced and sophisticated articial system — for example, an electronic one — can be made and programmed to
do the same thing as the
human nervous system, including the brain.
In
humans, the cerebellum's extensive connectivity with the rest of the brain suggests it
does far more than learn motor skills: it has been shown to have a part in both perception and
cognition, with recent work linking cerebellar dysfunction to such complex diseases as schizophrenia and autism.
From the psychology and neuroscience around play, creativity, dreaming and sleep, we can as easily derive a picture of
human cognition that doesn't recoil from the buzzing, blooming demands of everyday life, but exults in using imagination, stories, abstraction and metaphor to comprehend the world.
There's more to these findings than just lofty philosophical quandaries, though: If ravens really
do possess a level of social
cognition comparable to
humans and other large primates, the birds might serve as better animal models to study this kind of behavior in the lab — which could help scientists understand why some
humans are better at this kind of inference than others, and why some individuals can't manage it at all.
According to the researchers, there's still a lot we don't know about the effects of cocao on
human cognition.
Several studies in
human subjects with AD have shown that elevated ketones
do lead to improved
cognition.
It is hard to enough to teach even when anything can be taught; what to
do if there are distinct limits and strong constraints on
human cognition and learning?
Bloom's Taxonomy Don't throw out the multiple choice baby with the high stakes testing bathwater According to Edglossary «Blooms Taxonomy is a classification system used to define and distinguish different levels of
human cognition — i.e., thinking, learning, and understanding.»
If it didn't,
human cognition would be entirely impossible.
I
do not agree with Andy on all of the above — I don't think one ought to, or can validly, apply Darwinian evolutionary theory to Culture, Thought, or
Human cognition / understanding — to me that is a gross misapplication of a simplistic understanding of Darwin.
All of these things tax
human cognition and concentration in a way that a book or newspaper or magazine
does not.