cognitive capacity
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandcapacity
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cognitive
adjective[before noun]
uk/ˈkɒɡ.nə.tɪv/us/ˈkɑːɡ.nə.t̬ɪv/
connected with thinking or conscious ...
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capacity
noun
uk/kəˈpæs.ə.ti/us/kəˈpæs.ə.t̬i/
the total amount that can be contained ...
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The threat avoidance function suggested by revonsuo could therefore be included in this more general function of fundamentalcognitivecapacitypreservations and mental vigilance.
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This account predicts that when demands placed on one's system exceed availablecognitivecapacity, performance breaks down.
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Response to rhythm is not evoked solely by patterned language but extends into many experiences and is innate in ourcognitivecapacity.
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First, metacognition is considered one of humans' most sophisticated cognitive capacities and possibly a uniquely humancognitivecapacity.
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Since the study involved retrospective thought, the respondents were required to have adequatecognitivecapacityfor daily social functioning.
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However, the perceptions that professionals have about the developmental requirements andcognitivecapacity of adolescents impacts on how, and if, adolescents receive such information.
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However, their argument neglects an important aspect: being higher incognitivecapacityis not equivalent to investing morecognitivecapacity.
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Normative responses to some of the judgment problems were shown to be positively correlated withcognitivecapacity, which is consistent with the understanding/acceptance notion.
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Surprisingly, some who fall far below the average incognitivecapacitymay enjoy particularly creative or emotionally rich lives.
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The "simpler" thecognitivecapacityexhibited by humans, the less likely it is that this capacity is unique to humans.
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That is, althoughcognitivecapacityis stable, computational limitations may not be stable, owing to different degrees of cognitive effort.
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Thus, it can be concluded that facial processing and affect recognition is a process that also depends on generalcognitivecapacityand lifetime experience.
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Thus, we thought it important to examine whether intentional-level cognitive dispositions can explain unique variance - variance independent ofcognitivecapacity.
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In later adolescence, a more difficult four-ring problem was used over two trials because of the adolescents' increasedcognitivecapacity.
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That is, besides measuringcognitivecapacity, we must also measure the motivation to invest cognitive effort for a specific task at hand.
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How could language - a nondomain-specific symbolic communication system - be acquired by infants or children if they did not already possess a non-domainspecific conceptualcognitivecapacity?
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Fidelity reveals nothing aboutcognitivecapacityin the absence of knowledge of what exactly is being learned.
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But thecognitivecapacityto see these things requires a linguistic or symbolic capacity.
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