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Cognition

Cognition

Kognition·Also: geistige Leistungsfähigkeit

Cognition comprises mental abilities such as thinking, remembering, learning, attention and language. Disturbances of these functions can occur, for example, in dementia. The term describes the processing of information in the brain.

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