cognitive operation

Questions about cognitive operation

What does cognitive operation mean?

cognitive operation means "(psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents".

What is another word for cognitive operation?

Close synonyms include process, cognitive process, mental process, operation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is cognitive operation a common word?

cognitive operation is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.