Friday, May 8, 2020

What is empathy and cognition?

Psychologists have studied that empathy is a physiological phenomenon and cognitive perception is a cognitive state.

Psychologist Douglas Blumkist describes empathy as an inactivation process in which the neurons are merely impulses that can be carried by the sensory receptors to the nervous system.

Cognition is a more active process whereby sensory information is transported, organized and interpreted by the nervous system to the brain.

Cognition is also associated with other cognitive processes, such as the ability to interpret information obtained through memory, thinking and sensory processing.

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