How to say "cognition" in Japanese

• 認識にんしきJLPT N1approx.Common
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbCovers cognition in the broad everyday sense of awareness, perception, or understanding of something. Typical when talking about recognizing a problem or how well someone has grasped a situation.
  公僕こうぼくも人間にんげんであること、また、人間にんげんである以上いじょう過あやまちを犯おかす可能性かのうせいがあることを、彼かれは認識にんしきしている。↗

  He realizes that public officials are human, and that as human beings they are capable of misjudgement.
• 認知にんちCommon
  noun, suru verb, transitive verbThe term for cognition as a technical concept in psychology and cognitive science. It also means acknowledgement or recognition in other contexts, notably legal acknowledgement, which is a separate sense.

Use 認識 for cognition in the everyday sense of awareness, perception, or understanding of something, and 認知 for cognition as the technical term in psychology; 認知 also means acknowledgement in legal contexts.

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• 認識にんしきrecognition
• 認知にんちacknowledgement