Cognition vs. Cognitively — What's the Difference?

Cognition ( (listen)) refers to "the mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses". It encompasses many aspects of intellectual functions and processes such as: perception, attention, the formation of knowledge, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and "computation", problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language.

Of, characterized by, involving, or relating to cognition

The mental action or process of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought, experience, and the senses.

Relating to thinking (cognition).

The mental process of knowing, including aspects such as awareness, perception, reasoning, and judgment.

With regard to cognition;

That which comes to be known, as through perception, reasoning, or intuition; knowledge.

The process of knowing, of acquiring knowledge and understanding through thought and through the senses.

(countable) A result of a cognitive process.

The act of knowing; knowledge; perception.

That which is known.

The psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning