different between cognometrics vs cognition

English

Noun

cognometrics (uncountable)

1. A class of personal authentication techniques based on measuring innate cognitive abilities of the human brain (e.g. ability to recognize a familiar face).

Translations

English

Etymology

From Middle English cognicion, from Latin cognitio (“knowledge, perception, a judicial examination, trial”), from cognitus, past participle of cognoscere (“to know”), from co- (“together”) + *gnoscere, older form of noscere (“to know”); see know, and compare cognize, cognizance, cognizor, cognosce, connoisseur.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /k???n???n/
• (US) IPA^(key): /k???n???n/
• Hyphenation: cog?ni?tion

Noun

cognition (countable and uncountable, plural cognitions)

1. The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.
2. (countable) A result of a cognitive process.

Derived terms

• precognition
• hypocognition
• metacognition
• recognition

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Further reading

• cognition in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• cognition in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

Anagrams

• incognito