The phrase "cognitively complex" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to describe tasks, concepts, or processes that require a high level of mental effort or understanding.
Example: "The research paper presented a cognitively complex argument that challenged traditional theories."
Alternatives: "mentally challenging" or "intellectually demanding."
It also examines whether these differences correlate with an existing and more cognitively complex test of wholistic analytic cognitive style.
Processes of social learning (learning from others) are important for cognitive science to understand because they are cognitively complex and take many inter-related forms; they shape traditions, cultures and nonsocial aspects of cognition; and in turn they may be shaped by their cultural context.
This human capacity to help unfamiliar individuals is often viewed as a cognitively complex behavior that depends on high cognitive capacities and cultural transmission (Levine et al., 2001).
However, much of the focus of comparative social cognition has thus far been on experimental studies testing specific cognitive abilities rather than naturally occurring socially, and most likely cognitively, complex interactions, such as post-conflict behavior.
It's not clear why tests such as vocabulary would have a higher cognitive demand than tests that are less culturally loaded, but more cognitively complex (e.g., tests of abstract reasoning).
While it seems easy, recognizing those faces is a cognitively complex task.
Many cognitively complex jobs are beyond the abilities even of people with reasonable qualifications.
In the 21st century, as we continue quickly automating away half our jobs in the next 20 years -- jobs less cognitively-complex and more physically-laborious -- we need to enable ourselves to freely pursue our more creative and complex ventures.
While this situation is not uncommon in cognitively-complex social mammals [6], [8], it usually arises from more intense competition for female access which is not apparent in the Doubtful Sound population.
The evidence of this pattern under differing attribute trade-off assumptions suggests that the benefits of greater information collected through efficient designs outweighs the potential noise created by inconsistent respondent choices due to cognitively more complex efficient designs.
It also stands out that the temporal ordering task can be considered auditory and cognitively more complex than gap detection tasks.
