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Overall the page on Cognition is passable in its contents containing an accurate description of Cognition with relatively strong sources; However, there seems to be a shallowness to the page's portrayal of Cognition and its presentation of its' history.

The page's lead is descriptive and functional. Although, it seems to need some rephrasing towards the end to be less redundant. The tone seems to be objective, but the page's contents lack a sufficient account of the development of Cognition as a concept.

Without regard for cognitive perception and abstraction processes, the page seems to place the origins of Cognition as a topic of study across history with Aristotle and then moves directly to five accounts of psychological theories in various Enlightenment thinkers. This account inaccurately labels Aristotle as an empirical scientist in his methods of deliberation on the subject. After having provided a relatively loose account of early theorists, presented in no particular order and ranging from the 15th century to the 19th, the page lacks any discussion on contemporary models, theories, or Cognition theorists. Those mentioned are loosely contemporary psychologists who study Cognition from a perspective of psychological development and thus completely ignore the list of various fields that contribute to the study of Cognition. The problem inherent in this presentation is not one of content but a lack thereof about contemporary notions of Cognition and its functional aspects.

In the lack of contemporary breadth of perspectives on Cognition, one can see why WikiProject Neuroscience has deemed this concept as Top-Importance, WikiProject Philosophy / Mind, and WikiProject Psychology both place it as High-importance. To provide even simple information on the various perspectives on Cognition would portray a more articulated and wholistic portrayal of the concept. This information could also be laid out more concisely. As it stands now, the only primary contemporary attributes of Cognition in its scientific study represented are various tests of Cognition that come at the end of the page. Not only could there be more information on the history of cognitive theorists, but this information could be presented in chronological order, providing examples of influences of these conceptualizations on modern theories. The page seems to disregard the various disagreements that litter our modern concepts of Cognition, which would at least in a passing mention show the weight of such a complex topic.

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