Cognition

Cognition is described as the the mental process of knowing, which includes the faculties of awareness, perception, reasoning, intuition and judgment.

Let us review how the lexicographers report on how we use of the word, cognition:

• the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses. A result of this; a perception, sensation, notion, or intuition.
• a: cognitive mental processes; specifically : the intellectual process by which knowledge is gained about perceptions or ideas -- distinguished from affection and conation; b: a conscious intellectual act <conflict between cognitions>

Also see

• Cognitive psychology
• Scheme theory
• Cognitive science
• Semantic primes