Although the notion has been contested, it does seem fairly clear that these implements bear witness to another cognitive advance: the existence in the toolmaker's mind of a standard "mental template" to which the tools were made.
In addition to examining your chosen story's content in relation to the non-literary readings, your paper should at some point also address the experience or function itself of reading and/or inventing and circulating a story, in relation to our cognitive functions, our existence as social primates, or other aspects of our evolutionary heritage.
Despite this strong body of evidence for the existence of cognitive deficits and the compelling nature of the cognitive deficit account, performance on complex discrimination tasks such as those described above can, in fact, be explained much more straightforwardly without invoking deficits in non-observable cognitive processes.
Earlier, we saw that there for the theistic activist is a one-way causal relationship between God's cognitive activity and the existence of abstracta such as being the number two.
National task forces and academies have concluded that routine dementia screening – that is, population-based screening of individuals irrespective of the existence of cognitive complaints – cannot be recommended based on existing data, most notably screening tests' mediocre diagnostic specificity [ 2- 5].
A wide range of neuroscientific studies suggest the existence of cognitive mechanisms like attention, prediction, anticipation and strong vertical interactions between different hierarchical layers of the brain while performing complex tasks.
The Skeptics responded by denying the existence of cognitive impressions.
Philo did not deny that Arcesilaus and Carneades had argued against the existence of cognitive impressions.
The protocol was used to assess the presence of the exclusion criterion regarding the existence of cognitive impairment.
Prevailing theories propose the existence of cognitive control mechanisms that can suppress the processing of conflicting input and enhance that of the relevant input.
Other thinkers have gone even further than Kuhn, by positing the existence of cognitive formations that are both broader and deeper than his.
