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Since geometry is the measurement of matter and cognition deals with how we acquire knowledge about said matter, geometric cognition can be understood as conscious and unconscious processes that rely on geometric models to experience and accumulate knowledge, through perceiving, recognizing, conceiving, and reasoning of data in the framework of a cognitive geometry.