Definition of "cognitive process" []

• (psychology) the performance of some composite cognitive activity; an operation that affects mental contents (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "As the psychologist Robert Ornstein pointed out in his classic book On the Experience of Time, the perception of time is a cognitive process and is therefore subject to cognitive illusions, such as the Necker cube above.7 In general, the more cognitive processing you do within a given period, the more time you judge to have passed."