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Need for cognition
there is a rising premium on people with a high ‘need for cognition’. Need for cognition, or NFC, is a scientific measure of intellectual curiosity.
from Curious: The Desire to Know and Why Your Future Depends On It by Ian Leslie
- cognition can be seen as a multiscale web of dynamic information processing distributed across a vast array of complex cellular (e.g., neuronal, immune, and others) and network systems, operating across the entire body, and not just in the brain.
from The brain is not mental! coupling neuronal and immune cellular processing in human organisms
Mary Martin added
Ultimately, shifting the focus from neural to cellular processing invites us to reconsider the received idea that cognitive processes can be linked solely to the neural system, and that the brain is somehow the natural home of mental states.
- People think, learn, behave, and experience the world around them in many different ways. Some of this diversity is due to neurological differences. Neurodiversity refers to those variations in neurocognitive functioning.
from What Is Neurodiversity? by Ness Labs
Anne-Laure Le Cunff added