English

Adjective

cognitive ‎(comparative more cognitive, superlative most cognitive)

1. Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
   • 2013 July 9, Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe, “Cognition, brains and Riemann”, in plus.maths.org, retrieved 2013-09-08:

     Recent findings in cognitive neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.

2. Intellectual.
3. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate; which is to be recognized as cognate.
   • 1903, Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society Held at Philadelphia:

     Wanux "white man," cognitive with Aben. awanoch, now used for "Canadian Frenchman";

Related terms

• cognate
• cognition

Translations

Noun

cognitive ‎(plural cognitives)

1. (linguistics, rare, obsolete) Cognate.
   • 1902, American Anthropologist:

     Abenaki awanoch, the cognitive of Penobscot awenoch, means Frenchman,

See also

• affective
• motor

French

Adjective

cognitive

1. feminine singular of cognitif

Italian

Adjective

cognitive

1. feminine plural of cognitivo