An older child will have a much greater emotional and cognitive understanding of pain," Dr. Fitzgerald said, "and therefore have associated anxiety.

"There may not be a direct cognitive understanding, but it stays with them," said Mr. Lancit, who is 40.

Culture can be understood as "shared understandings (emotional, moral, and cognitive) and their embodiments."

He moved abstract painting beyond the mundane into the realm of cognitive understanding through a heightened sensory involvement with materials and an ultimate clarity of space.

People with dyslexia (particularly Scotopic Sensitivity Syndrome) find that justification helps with cognitive understanding.

Evidence suggests that people develop their cognitive understanding of music from their cultures.

Axiom 47: An increase in cultural individualism will produce an increase in the focus on cognitive understanding to communicate effectively with strangers.

Subjective understanding includes an individual's affective and cognitive understandings of an interpersonal event.

Thus emotional reactions usually follow from cognitive understanding.