Cognition can be defined as the mental ability or a set of mental processes that are involved in thinking, reasoning, perception, comprehension, making judgments and decisions, etc. In simplest terms, cognition refers to the ‘thought process’. According to some theories of human cognition, the source of all knowledge is primarily our cognitive abilities (Cognitivism) and mind (Mentalism). Some linguists also consider language to be a cognitive ability, and prefer to study acquisition, development and production of language under human cognition, but this is debatable. Metacognition (meta means ‘beyond’) is a relatively newer concept in psychology and psycholinguistics, which refers to the higher order cognitive abilities that allow for cognition of cognitive abilities. In other words, metacognition is the ability to think about thinking, to understand the process of processing information, perception and evaluation, and to reason for the source of reason. Metacognitive abilities are linked with human intelligence and logic.
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