what is cognitive ability
Cognition is the set of all mental abilities and processes related to knowledge, attention, memory and working memory, judgment and evaluation, reasoning and  computation , problem solving and decision making, comprehension and production of language, etc.ognition is a word that dates back to the 15th century when it meant thinking and awareness. Attention to the cognitive process came about more than twenty-three centuries ago, beginning with Aristotle and his interest in the inner workings of the mind and how they affect the human experience.