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cognitive loads

cognitive loads is the plural of cognitive load.

Meaning of cognitive load

Noun

cognitive load (plural cognitive loads)

  1. (cognitive psychology) The used amount of working memory resources.
    • I've never felt more comfortable moving across our family of devices as a user, which I do hundreds of times a day than I do now, moving between iOS 14, iPadOS 14, and macOS Big Sur. They all just feel of a family – there's just less cognitive load to the switching process.2020 November 13, Andrew Griffin, quoting Craig Federighi, “Apple tells us how it made its new chip and MacBooks”, in The Independent

Questions about cognitive loads

What is cognitive loads the plural of?
Cognitive loads is the plural of cognitive load.

Words near cognitive loads in the dictionary

  1. cognitive distortion
  2. cognitive dysfunction syndrome
  3. cognitive estrangement
  4. cognitive linguistics
  5. cognitive load
  6. cognitive loads
  7. cognitive parallax
  8. cognitive poetics
  9. cognitive psychology
  10. cognitive relativism
  11. cognitive reserve

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