Your Brain and acquiring knowledge

 Cognition is the "mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses".^[2] It encompasses all aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, thought, imagination, intelligence, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and computation, problem-solving and decision-making, comprehension and production of language. Cognitive processes use existing knowledge to discover new knowledge.