Adjective

(en adjective)

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

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, 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

Adjective

(-)

Of or pertaining to a striving action.

The conative , as opposed to the cognitive or affective, relates to purposeful, but not necessarily ultimately rational, action.