"higher cognitive process" | Definition and Related Words

Noun

is a type of: cognitive operation, cognitive process, mental process, operation, process - (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents
subtypes:
- search - the examination of alternative hypotheses
- cerebration, intellection, mentation, thinking, thought, thought process - the process of using your mind to consider something carefully
- suggestion - the sequential mental process in which one thought leads to another by association
- deciding, decision making - the cognitive process of reaching a decision
- knowing - a clear and certain mental apprehension
- language, linguistic process - the cognitive processes involved in producing and understanding linguistic communication