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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

process, operation, cognitive process, mental process, cognitive operation go
(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity

basic cognitive process go
cognitive processes involved in obtaining and storing knowledge

memory, remembering
the cognitive processes whereby past experience is remembered

noun.cognition

8 Subcategories

short-term memory, STM, immediate memory go
what you can repeat immediately after perceiving it
working memory go
memory for intermediate results that must be held during thinking
long-term memory, LTM go
your general store of remembered information
retrieval go
the cognitive operation of accessing information in memory
recall, recollection, reminiscence go
the process of remembering (especially the process of recovering information by mental effort)
identification, recognition go
the process of recognizing something or someone by remembering
connection, connexion, association go
the process of bringing ideas or events together in memory or imagination
retrospection go
memory for experiences that are past