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cognitive neuroscience

A subset of neuroscience that is "totally necessary" because "just because you can't quantify it doesn't mean it's not there." The cognitive neuroscience professors will defend the validity of cognition with their lives, and fight the neuroscience department for their honor.
"I'm in the cognitive neuroscience lab"
"..is that a wet lab?"
"No"
"Well then it's not a lab"
by brrrrrruh69 May 7, 2018
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Cockith

He is really good at cockith
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Cognitive Black Hole

Whenever someone takes a dogmatic position that only leads into a confined recursive feedback loop of confirmation bias, thus further reinforcing that given belief and making it impossible to escape.
Kanye West - "Jewish people control the media and the entertainment industry."
*gets cancelled for antisemitic remarks*
Kanye West - "See!?..."
dude - "damn, Kanye fell into a cognitive black hole."
by cutza November 3, 2022
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cognitive function

"I got in a car wreck. Now I'm a vegetable."

"How are you typing? "

"Cognitive Function Bitch"
by Dick ThunderSword May 11, 2015
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Cognitive Dissonance

Internally repealing old beliefs and past experiences and replacing them with new information that contradicts the original to conform with internal belief structures.

Example: Democrats
Joe Biden saying if the President had done his job, no one would have died from Covid-19, then declaring "there is nothing we can do to change the trajectory of the pandemic in the next several months" is an extreme case of Cognitive Dissonance.
by 7Slinger January 26, 2021
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Immaculate Cognition

Immaculate Cognition -- the state of forming and having an undeniably correct opinion without any input of accurate data or factual information.
Immaculate Cognition, the capricious and spontaneous generation of supposedly irrefutable knowledge without any verifiable outside influences or forces, is in reality rarer than Immaculate Conception.
by ZenWarrior July 1, 2011
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cognitive dissonance

Cognitive Dissonance States that contradicting cognitions serve as a driving force that compels the mind to acquire or invent new thoughts or beliefs, or to modify existing beliefs, so as to reduce the amount of dissonance (conflict) between cognitions.
You do a boring job, but is paid $30/hour, so you say that is a nice and interesting job....'well, it is not cognitive dissonance, I think is a great new job!!'

You are deciding about two movies, your girlfriend wants to see the most boring one so after the cinema, you think it was a good movie and cool after all.
by David Mendoza November 9, 2006
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