The phrase "a cognition" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when referring to a specific instance or type of cognitive process or understanding.
Example: "The study aimed to explore a cognition that influences decision-making in uncertain situations."
Alternatives: "a thought" or "a mental process".
Thus, for an object to count as a support (ālambana) for cognitive awareness it must (i) produce a cognition, and (ii) that cognition must take the form of the object (see APV ad Iad).
The inclusion of positive thoughts in a cognition questionnaire makes it possible to examine theoretical cognitive models like the SOM model, power of nonnegative thinking, and the content-specificity hypothesis.
A cognition is a bit of knowledge or belief.
"Evidence is building up that they're able to plan their actions in advance, which is very interesting from a cognition point of view," says research zoologist Dr Joanna Wimpenny, a member of the Oxford team.
Attitude, in social psychology, a cognition, often with some degree of aversion or attraction (emotional valence), that reflects the classification and evaluation of objects and events.
Miscavige's office is at the top of the building on the seventh floor, while on the sixth is a running track, where Scientologists are expected to run in circles until they attain enlightenment, or what Hubbard called a "cognition".
According to several copies of church documents that have been leaked online, Hubbard's handwritten instructions for the first level list thirteen mental exercises that attune practitioners to their relationship with others, such as "Note several large and several small male bodies until you have a cognition.
This suggests that at least some Buddhist traditions distinguish between a cognition, the object of a cognition and the feeling accompanying a cognition.
