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cognitive reserve

cognitive reserve noun: the resilience and behavioural resistance of the mind against brain to damage to the brain.

Noun

cognitive reserve (countable and uncountable, plural cognitive reserves)

  1. The resilience and behavioural resistance of the mind against brain to damage to the brain.

Forms of cognitive reserve

pluralcognitive reserves

Questions about cognitive reserve

What does cognitive reserve mean?
Cognitive reserve means the resilience and behavioural resistance of the mind against brain to damage to the brain.
What part of speech is cognitive reserve?
Cognitive reserve is a noun.
What is the plural of cognitive reserve?
The plural of cognitive reserve is cognitive reserves.

Words near cognitive reserve in the dictionary

  1. cognitive loads
  2. cognitive parallax
  3. cognitive poetics
  4. cognitive psychology
  5. cognitive relativism
  6. cognitive reserve
  7. cognitive reserves
  8. cognitive science
  9. cognitive sciences
  10. cognitive therapies
  11. cognitive therapy

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