Monday, November 21, 2011

Cognition And Learning New Activities

The ability of the brain to learn and process the information that we receive through our senses is called cognition. Humans have an innate cognitive ability and are able to perceive things quickly and adapt to new situations and learn from these situations. We can increase our cognitive abilities by using proper brain training which will help us recall things easier, be able to focus more intently, and even reduce the risk of dementia and other brain diseases.

Humans learn through all of the things that come into contact with our senses. It doesn’t just have to be through reading books or studying through school. Each and every environment that we immerse ourselves in, we take something in and learn. As we continue to do things over and over again, our brains cognitively process this information and use this information to recall how to act or react to our environment.

Without cognition and the ability to recall things that we have learned, it would be like we would be re-born over and over again with a clean slate and empty mind. As soon as we cognitively process a piece of information, our brain forms a neural pathway to make it easier to recall the next time we are in a similar environment or situation. The more times that we repeat this process, the more clear the neural pathway is defined.

Without the ability of cognition and to learn and adapt, we may be in serious trouble. For example, we have learned about gravity through the painful process of trial and error when we were young. It hurts to fall and so over time, we have learned to balance ourselves and not to take any crazy risks, like by walking off the edge of a high rise building.

If we didn’t have cognition to understand how things work and to learn and adapt, we would not be able to survive as a human race. And so with time, we have slowly evolved to a point where we now have the great ability to learn many things at an incredible rate.

Besides just being able to conceive things at an elementary level, like what goes up must come down, we can train our brains to learn more complex things. We can teach ourselves to figure out complex math computations, learn new languages, and build new pieces of technology to solve problems at the snap of a finger. Cognition is something that should be used to better your life.

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