cognitive mechanism
collocation in Englishmeaningsofcognitiveandmechanism
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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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mechanism
noun[C]
uk/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/us/ˈmek.ə.nɪ.zəm/
a part of a machine, or a set of parts that ...
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Our understanding of the neural underpinnings of theory of mind awaits the development of a computational account of thecognitivemechanism.
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Without acognitivemechanismfor the differences observed, it seems premature to conclude that the differences observed are purely maturational.
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The book explores a variety of crucial linguistic phenomena which reveal thecognitivemechanismof our mind and language.
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This kind ofcognitivemechanismseems likely to be something that might reasonably have evolved to produce feelings of conscious will in the human.
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That is, the reliability of acognitivemechanismis relative to the environment in which it is operating.
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It is still not clear whether a more generalcognitivemechanismis responsible for the cognitive dysfunction in major depression.
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The results suggest a possiblecognitivemechanismof transmission of gambling behavior in the family from one generation to the next.
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It is not acognitivemechanismthat is called up when a familiar stimulus occurs.
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The most important factor governing the expansion or contraction of "invisible colleges" in science is thus to be located in thecognitivemechanismof information integration.
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He argues that frequency is a fundamentalcognitivemechanismin every domain of language processing: phonology, phonotactics, reading, spelling, lexis, morphosyntax, pragmatics, sentence production, and comprehension.
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Acognitivemechanismexhibits domain specificity if it is good at processing information relevant to certain problems, but not other problems to which the mechanism might be applied.
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We suggest that thiscognitivemechanismhas more utility because cognitive variables are much easier and cheaper to change and thus make prevention and treatment more feasible and cheaper.
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Analogy-making is suggested as a possible candidate for an underlying and unifyingcognitivemechanism of decision-making, one which can explain some of the paradoxes of rationality.
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An analysis of the concept of a ' reliablecognitivemechanism' reveals that there are a number of factors that contribute to the reliability of a cognitive process.
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First, whichcognitivemechanismcan be suggested to explain the robust differences in naming - reading speed relationships as a function of word length?
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We think that the case for the sufficiency of teleological behaviorism has not yet been made, and we offer an example of a sufficientcognitivemechanism.
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Uncanny stimuli may activate acognitivemechanismthat originally evolved to motivate the avoidance of potential sources of pathogens by eliciting a disgust response.
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The intersection between the various components of language and related cognitive mechanisms is likely to change over time.
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However, the problem of evolvability brings into question the number of genes required for the evolution of cognitive mechanisms.
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