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Simplified model of cognitive processes associated with perception and memory

Cognition encompasses mental processes that acquire, store, retrieve, transform, or apply information. It is a pervasive part of mental life, helping individuals understand and interact with the world. Cognition includes perception, which organizes and interprets sensory input; memory, which stores and retrieves information; and thinking, which considers and manipulates ideas. Cognitive processes can be conscious or unconscious, and controlled or automatic. Classical computationalism conceives cognition as symbol-based rule processing, similar to how computers execute algorithms. Connectionism models the mind as a complex network of nodes where information flows as they communicate with each other. Many disciplines examine cognition, including psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science. Its study originated in antiquity and has gained interdisciplinary prominence during the cognitive revolution in the 1950s. (Full article...)

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1223 – Louis VIII (seal pictured) began his three-year reign as King of France.
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Chandrayaan-3 is India's third lunar mission, part of the Chandrayaan programme developed by the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO). The mission's spacecraft consists of Vikram, a lunar lander, and Pragyan, a lunar rover. This photograph shows the LVM3-M4 rocket carrying Chandrayaan-3 lifting off from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota on 14 July 2023. Vikram later made a successful soft landing near the lunar south pole in August 2023, making India the fourth country to achieve a soft landing on the Moon, and the first country to land a lunar spacecraft near the south pole.

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