在托福官方真题14Lecture1的文章中,原文提到We’ve said that the term “Cognition” refers tomental states like: knowing and believing, and to mental processes that we useto arrive at those states. So for example, reasoning is a cognitive process, soit’s perception. We use information that we perceive through our senses to helpus make decisions to arrive at beliefs and so on. And then there are memory andimagination, which relate to the knowledge of things that happen in the past andmay happen in the future. So perceiving, remembering, imagining are all internalmental processes that lead to knowing or believing.