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cognitive ability
Also known as: cognitive capacities, cognitive ability, cognitive capabilities
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Investigating the impact of sleep quality on cognitive functions ... frontiersin.org 5 facts
claimLondon University students who frequently used smartphones and tablets before bed reported poorer sleep quality and reduced cognitive abilities, according to Li et al. (2024).
claimInsufficient sleep leads to declines in cognitive abilities, which negatively impacts academic achievement, emotional regulation, and social interactions.
claimSignificant negative correlations exist between Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) scores and cognitive performance, indicating that poorer sleep quality correlates with diminished cognitive abilities across domains.
claimThe research study aims to assess the impact of proposed interventions on sleep quality, cognitive abilities, and academic performance to provide policy implications for university administrators and educational policymakers.
claimChronic sleep deprivation can lead to structural and functional changes in the brain, which affects cognitive abilities and increases the risk of mental health disorders.
Complexity and the Evolution of Consciousness | Biological Theory link.springer.com Sep 14, 2022 2 facts
claimMonica Gagliano has published research arguing for cognitive abilities in plants, including memory and learning.
claimUnlike Herbert Spencer and John Dewey, who included consciousness in their explanations of mental complexity, Godfrey-Smith (1996a) restricted his environmental complexity thesis to explaining basic cognitive capacities while excluding subjective experience.
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 2 facts
Virtue Epistemology - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy plato.stanford.edu Jul 9, 1999 1 fact
referenceDuncan Pritchard's 2010 article 'Cognitive Ability and the Extended Cognition Thesis', published in Synthese, discusses the relationship between cognitive ability and extended cognition.
Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution frontiersin.org 1 fact
claimThe model proposed in 'Psychedelics, Sociality, and Human Evolution' suggests that psilocybin ingestion would have amplified capacities for complex social interaction and cognitive abilities, including creativity, non-verbal and linguistic expression, and suggestibility.
Impact of sleep duration on executive function and brain structure nature.com Mar 3, 2022 1 fact
referenceSalthouse, T. A. published 'What cognitive abilities are involved in trail-making performance?' in the journal Intelligence in 2011.
Naturalized epistemology and cognitive science | Intro to... - Fiveable fiveable.me 1 fact
claimEvolutionary epistemology treats cognitive capacities as products of biological evolution that have been shaped by natural selection.
Why At Least 7 Hours of Sleep Is Essential for Brain Health medicine.utah.edu Jun 26, 2023 1 fact
claimSufficient sleep enhances cognitive abilities, creativity, and overall mental performance.
AI Sessions #9: The Case Against AI Consciousness (with Anil Seth) conspicuouscognition.com Feb 17, 2026 1 fact
claimHenry Shevlin asserts that AI systems have achieved human-level performance on a wide range of verbal reasoning tasks and can produce high-quality fiction, suggesting that the attribution of cognitive abilities to AI is not entirely a result of pareidolia.
Self-awareness, self-regulation, and self-transcendence (S-ART) frontiersin.org 1 fact
referenceThe evaluative narrative self (NS) is reflected in metacognitive knowledge, which includes knowledge about cognitive abilities, cognitive strategies, and tasks.
A Survey on the Theory and Mechanism of Large Language Models arxiv.org Mar 12, 2026 1 fact
claimKim et al. (2025a) aim to mechanistically diagnose benchmark composition by decomposing performance into contributions from discrete cognitive abilities, addressing the issue where single-scalar scores obscure the complex combination of skills required for a task.
Panpsychism (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy/Fall 2025 Edition) plato.stanford.edu May 23, 2001 1 fact
claimPanqualityists typically propose a reductionist account, such as functionalism, where a quality is experienced if it plays the correct causal role in an organism's cognitive capacities.
Epistemology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimSources of justification are cognitive capacities or methods through which people acquire justification, with commonly discussed sources including perception, introspection, memory, reason, and testimony.
Memory and Sleep: How Are They Connected? ncoa.org Jun 4, 2025 1 fact
claimSleep deprivation negatively impacts the brain by reducing cognitive abilities, hindering learning, increasing forgetfulness, and making recall unreliable.
The Problem of Hard and Easy Problems cambridge.org Mar 31, 2023 1 fact
referenceThe 'easy problems' of consciousness concern the explanation of cognitive abilities and functions, which can be explained by specifying a mechanism that performs the function.
Social Epistemology - Open Encyclopedia of Cognitive Science oecs.mit.edu Jul 24, 2024 1 fact
claimEvolutionary epistemology sees the evolution of cognitive capabilities as a source of explanations for how human and animal cognitive processes function.
Evolutionary psychology - Wikipedia en.wikipedia.org 1 fact
claimLearning to read and write is not considered an evolved psychological adaptation because ancestral humans did not read or write; instead, it requires extensive training and likely involves repurposing cognitive capacities that evolved for other selection pressures.
Virtue Epistemology | Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy iep.utm.edu 1 fact
claimVirtue responsibilists define the notion of intellectual virtue in terms of intellectual character, which potentially excludes the cognitive abilities that interest virtue reliabilists.