HIGHER COGNITIVE PROCESS

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does higher cognitive process mean? 

• HIGHER COGNITIVE PROCESS (noun)
  The noun HIGHER COGNITIVE PROCESS has 1 sense:

1. cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use

  Familiarity information: HIGHER COGNITIVE PROCESS used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HIGHER COGNITIVE PROCESS (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use

Classified under:

Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents

Hypernyms ("higher cognitive process" is a kind of...):

cognitive operation; cognitive process; mental process; operation; process ((psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "higher cognitive process"):

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)