the mental act or process of acquiring knowledge that involves the processing of sensory information and includes perception, awareness, and judgment
an insight, intuition, or perception that is a product of this process
Since the 1950s, the cognitive sciences have urged that we understand cognition on the model of a computer. Perception, inference, language use, and memory all depend upon extensive unconscious computation and upon cognitive structures and dispositions which are innate, perhaps to be explained by natural selection — Professor Christopher Hookway
cognitional adj
[Middle English from Latin cognition-, cognitio, from cognoscere to become acquainted with, know]