'cognitive' is a correct and usable word in written English.
You can use 'cognitive' to describe or refer to mental processes, such as thinking, learning, understanding, memory, and problem-solving. Example: "This study aims to explore the cognitive skills involved in language development."
"Play is such an important part of child development – physical, cognitive, mental, social, psychological," says Susan.
You are obviously free to come to your own views about Hunt's strange cognitive dissonance, where on the one hand there are the "strictest conditions" on the dredging, but on the other hand the "dredging area is not a notable... site" in the Reef.
At the end of another week of cognitive dissonance for the richest, loudest, most chasteningly brittle league in the world, there must be a few more interesting conversations to be had.
More than half the studies were related to psychiatric, metabolic and cognitive functions, including rates of depression, anxiety, mental and behavioural disorders related to use of alcohol and tobacco, weight and height.
Recent advances in behavioural economics, cognitive neuroscience, network theory and social psychology more generally have overturned our common sense understanding of human behaviour.
There is a cognitive dissonance between now and then.
There is some serious cognitive dissonance going on here that is personally and professionally disturbing.
Dementia is a set of behaviours or "symptoms" which suggest difficulties with cognitive function.
Headspace, a meditation software for smart phones, has registered more than half a million users, and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT) is even growing in popularity in parliament.
Robin Dunbar, the director of the institute of cognitive and evolutionary anthropology at Oxford University, showed the audience how he had scientifically unwrapped the sentiment and cant surrounding modern ideas about friendship and the enhancing role of social networking technology.
A black leather-bound thesis catches my eye: an MSc dissertation in cognitive behavioural psychotherapy.
