"cognitive capacities" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It refers to the mental abilities or skills that a person possesses. Example: "As we age, our cognitive capacities may decline, making it harder to remember things or learn new information."
If the relevant cognitive capacities were rudimentary enough, even severely cognitively impaired human beings would qualify.
Less cognitively demanding strategies can be applied with less cognitively mature adolescents, while interventions requiring higher level cognitive capacities may be more relevant to adolescents who have attained greater proficiency in CBT-relevant cognitive capacities.
The concurrent performance of a cognitively-demanding task during walking seems to overload children's cognitive capacities.
Researchers worry that our new dependence on digital navigation systems is damaging crucial cognitive capacities.
We also experience pain as more than physical because of our unique cognitive capacities.
Person-related intelligences include both interpersonal and intrapersonal cognitive capacities.
And sedentary elders who start walking daily improve their cognitive capacities.
But it's interesting: we lose brain tissue, but we don't necessarily lose cognitive capacities.
Another deep and intractable problem in India is infant malnutrition, which affects adult cognitive capacities and the future employability of today's young.
Recent research shows that New Caledonian crows and western scrub jays exceed, in some respects, the cognitive capacities of great apes.
Indeed, if what one means by thinking is whatever explains one's higher cognitive capacities, it's an open question whether one can introspect one's thinking at all.
