Have you considered the possibility that “cognitive ability” is a technical term of art in this context, or an “improper noun”. https://news.ycombinator.com/ite

Have you considered the possibility that “cognitive ability” is a technical term of art in this context, or an “improper noun”. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32673100 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32673100 It’s always worth assuming that terminology used for a technical scientific paper was chosen carefully and may imply certain specific things that those of us not working in the same field might not know. Still, even the words themselves don’t seem to mean exactly the same thing; cognitive ability does seem more specific than intelligence (especially if you consider the common terms emotional intelligence, general intelligence, and artificial intelligence). It’s pretty easy to find evidence that cognitive ability and intelligence mean slightly different things. https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/12/21/are-cognitive-abilities-the-same-thing-as-intelligence https://sharpbrains.com/blog/2006/12/21/are-cognitive-abilit... Plus there are different aptitude tests, some named IQ Test (Stanford-Binet) and some named Cognitive Ability Test (CogAT).