Kognitivna

Kognitivna is the feminine singular form of the adjective kognitivan in several South Slavic languages, including Croatian, Bosnian, Serbian, Montenegrin, and Slovenian. It denotes relations to cognition, the mental processes by which knowledge is acquired, interpreted, stored, and used. As an inflected adjective, it agrees with the noun in gender, number, and case; the masculine form is kognitivni and the neuter kognitivno, while the feminine nominative singular is kognitivna. The root kognitiv- derives from Latin cognitivus, from cognoscere to know, and has entered many European languages through scientific and philosophical vocabulary, including English cognitive.

In everyday and academic usage, kognitivna appears in phrases such as kognitivna psihologija (cognitive psychology), kognitivne funkcije (cognitive functions), and kognitivni procesi (cognitive processes). In Croatian and Slovenian contexts, terms like kognitivna znanost or kognitivne znanosti are used to refer to cognitive science; in some varieties the spelling and terminology may vary, but the concept remains the study of mental processes such as perception, attention, memory, language, problem solving, and decision making. The word is primarily an attributive adjective and does not refer to a separate field on its own, though it forms the basis for many discipline names.

See also cognitive science, cognitive psychology, cognitive neuroscience.