Sentence examples for cognitive clash from inspiring English sources
The cognitive clash here is between the location of the square and that of the key.
But they had identified a cognitive clash that — as the Daniels also suspected — any experiment with the form would have to navigate.
Furthermore, the differences between the two groups increased with age, leading her to hypothesise that knowing and using two languages inhibits the mind's decline.The tests she used rely on a phenomenon known as the Simon effect, in which cognitive clashes cause a person's reaction time to slow down.
The behavioral phenomenon at play is called cognitive dissonance: a clash between two conflicting beliefs.
But in general, people deal with cognitive dissonance — the clashing of conflicting thoughts — by eliminating one of the thoughts.
Most workplace problems, believers explain, stem from a clash of cognitive styles: when a visual manager sends a written memo to an "auditory" employee, for example, or when a pragmatic manager rejects as too pie-in-the-sky the contributions of a theoretical subordinate.
The cognitive status of mystical knowing and its clash with the mystics' claims about the ineffability of their experiences have also been topics of interest for modern students of mysticism.
It's hard for the brain to read the word correctly when the color of the letters clashes with the meaning, making this a widely used test of cognitive abilities.
