Kognitioa

Kognitioa is the Basque term for cognition, referring to the mental processes by which knowledge is acquired, organized, retrieved, and used. In Basque scholarly and educational contexts, kognitioa serves as an umbrella for research into thinking and mental life, including perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, and reasoning.

Within cognitive science, kognitioa is studied across disciplines such as cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience, linguistics, philosophy of mind, and artificial intelligence. The field explores how information is perceived, represented, and manipulated by the mind, and how these processes give rise to behavior. The main theoretical frameworks include information-processing approaches that view the mind as a system of representations and rules, connectionist or neural network models that simulate learning through distributed processing, and embodied or enactivist theories that emphasize the role of bodily experience and environment in cognition.

Research methods in kognitioa combine experimental tasks, behavioral data, neuroimaging and electrophysiology, computational modeling, and psychometric assessment. Applications extend to education, human-computer interaction, clinical psychology, and neurorehabilitation, among others. The term reflects both a linguistic identity and a scientific concept, illustrating how Basque scholarship engages with global debates about how minds work while preserving linguistic and cultural context.