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Quite simply, cognition refers to thinking. There are the obvious applications of conscious reasoning-doing taxes, playing chess, deconstructing Macbeth -but thought takes many subtler forms, such as interpreting sensory input, guiding physical actions, and empathizing with others. The old metaphor for human cognition was the computer-a logical information-processing machine.

ONE lesson I've learned while writing about fitness is that few things impinge on an active life as much as writing about fitness - all that time spent hunched before a computer or puzzling over scientific journals, the countless hours of feckless, seated procrastination. While writing about the benefits of exercise, my muscles slackened.

Dancing or Sports Video Games May Not Influence Children's Physical Activity Feb. 27, 2012 -- Giving children an "active" dancing or sports video game may not necessarily make them more active. A new study shows that children given active video games were no more physically active than those given more stationary video games.