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Perception Cognition & Action

Language: English Studies in English

University website: www.nuigalway.ie/

Cognition

Cognition is "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses processes such as attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge and generate new knowledge.

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Perception

Perception (from the Latin perceptio) is the organization, identification, and interpretation of sensory information in order to represent and understand the presented information, or the environment.

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Perception

I see the same sadness in the eyes of conformists as I do in the eyes of those convulsing radically in opposition. I talk to people that aren't like me, individually, thoughtfully. And I listen. If I walk away from a conversation thinking differently than before I entered into it, I have succeeded in doing something that doesn't compute. If I haven't interacted and challenged what I know, resulting in a change of perception, I am still running my own set of stupid old programs.

Paul J. Schrag, in Adbusters (2003)

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Action

Ferreus assiduo consumitur anulus usu.

The iron ring is worn out by constant use.

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Action

I have always thought the actions of men the best interpreters of their thoughts.

John Locke, Essay Concerning Human Understanding (1689), Book 1, Chapter 3, §3.

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