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Ken Wilber has formulated a highly detailed and comprehensive integral framework which could be described as a cognitive map of non-cognitive aspects of human nature (see, for example, the online document The Integral Vision).

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  1. adjective Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition: "Thinking in terms of dualisms is common in our cognitive culture” (Key Reporter).
  2. adjective Having a basis in or reducible to empirical factual knowledge.

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  • Here, I review the ways in which medicine might make bodies and brains function better by modulating motor, cognitive, and affective systems.
  • AXIS II: PERSONALITY PATTERNS The following paragraphs refer to those enduring and pervasive personality traits that underlie this woman's emotional, cognitive, and interpersonal difficulties. —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Ken Wilber has formulated a highly detailed and comprehensive integral framework which could be described as a cognitive map of non-cognitive aspects of human nature (see, for example, the online document The Integral Vision). —  Integral Options Cafe
  • Emotions can be divided between 'cognitive' theories of emotions and 'non-cognitive' theories of emotions; or instinctual emotions (from the amygdala), and cognitive emotions (from the prefrontal cortex). —  Recently Uploaded Slideshows
  • Individuals who have been diagnosed with MCI show memory loss but relatively preserved abilities in other cognitive areas. —  Health News from Medical News Today
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  1. from Latin cognitus (see cognition) + -ive; = French cognitif.
 

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/ˈkɑgnɪtɪv/
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