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Cognitive vs Comprehend - What's the difference?

cognitive | comprehend |

As an adjective cognitive

is relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.

As a verb comprehend is

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cognitive

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Relating to the part of mental functions that deals with logic, as opposed to affective which deals with emotions.
  • * {{quote-web
  • , date = 2013-07-09 , author = Joselle DiNunzio Kehoe , title = Cognition, brains and Riemann , site = plus.maths.org , url = http://plus.maths.org/content/cognition-brains-and-riemann , accessdate = 2013-09-08 }}
    Recent findings in cognitive' neuroscience are also beginning to unravel how the body perceives magnitudes through sensory-motor systems. Variations in size, speed, quantity and duration, are registered in the brain by electro-chemical changes in neurons. The neurons that respond to these different magnitudes share a common neural network. In a survey of this research, ' cognitive neuroscientists Domenica Bueti and Vincent Walsh tell us that the brain does not treat temporal perception, spatial perception and perceived quantity as different.
  • Intellectual
  • See also

    * affective * motor ----

    comprehend

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • * 1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , IV.1:
  • And lothly mouth, unmeete a mouth to bee, / That nought but gall and venim comprehended […].
  • * 1776 , (Edward Gibbon), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire , Penguin 2009, p. 9:
  • In the second century of the Christian Æra, the empire of Rome comprehended the fairest part of the earth, and the most civilized portion of mankind.
  • To understand or grasp fully and thoroughly.