Abstract—Cognitive skills play an important role in performance of any individual. Knowing the level of cognitive skill, we can predict ones performance in many fields. This expected performance, using cognitive tools, can be very helpful especially for critical tasks like fire-fighting, driving of public transport, flying, and mining etc. Many researchers, from philosophy and psychology, have established relationship between expected cognitive skills and different mental and physical conditions like emotional stability, stress, tiredness, state of angriness. Different experiments were carried out to estimate the factors that can affect these skills, for both the genders, male and female. These experiments conclude that cognitive ability can be affected largely by the some basic human emotions i.e. happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise, and stress. However, no formal formulation could be established to calculate the expected cognitive skills by measuring these basic emotions simultaneously. Now we have many well defined methods in computer sciences, both supervised and un-supervised, that can be used to establish such complex relationships. Basic aim of this position paper is to present the idea of our propose experiment and the expected outcome. We have also discussed finding of our initial experiment in this paper and the equation developed from this experiment. Index Terms—Cognitive skills, human emotion, data mining, association rule mining. I. INTRODUCTION Cognitive skills, in simple words, can be referred to as human ability to process, learn new things, or perform something intelligently. Cognitive skills are concerned with memory and largely dependent on factor that affects the short and long term memory. Different factors like anger and stress temporarily affect such skills while age and different diseases have long-lasting effect on these skills, may be different from individual to individual, but are present in all humans at the time of birth. Cognition is a process in which inputs gathered by different input methods are processed, transformed, consumed, and stored. Different disciplines use this term differently. According to scientific definition, it is a mental process that uses working memory and inferring capabilities Manuscript received February 20, 2014; revised April 22, 2014. Sadique Ahmad and Awais Adnan are with IM|Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan (e-mail: ahmad01.shah@gmail.com, awais.adnan@imsciences.edu.pk). Gulnawar Khan is with the Computer Department, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan (e-mail: gul_nawar@yahoo.com). Nasir Mehmood Khan is with MS-Information Technology, Department of Computer Sciences, Institute of Management Sciences Peshawar, Pakistan (e-mail: nasirkhan974@yahoo.com). for speaking, reasoning, problem solving and other decision- making activities. In psychology cognition is referred as individual psychological function to process information. In social psychology it is a branch to explain the group dynamics, behavior and attitude. In cognitive engineering, term “cognition” is a process of brain or mind used to process information that can be both natural and unnatural, doing consciously or unconsciously. Cognitive abilities that are the combination of different brain processes [1] are analyzed differently in different fields like neurosciences, psychology, systemic, linguistics, anthropology, philosophy, psychiatry, and computer science. There is a general perception that cognitive abilities are affected inevitably due to aging and nothing can halt this decline. Some researchers however do not agree with this claim completely. They argue that although certain abilities do show a decline with increase, especially in later age, however some other skills remain stable [2] and this decline can be slowdown by some intervention [3], [4]. For example knowledge or experience that can also referred as “Crystallized” intelligence remains stable with age. Ability to think and react quickly and ability to perform multi- tasking that can be referred as “fluid” intelligence go to decline with increase in age [5]. Similarly event that have been stored over many years in past as remote memory is mostly preserved with increase in age while new memory and tendency to remember current things decrease with age specially with doing simultaneously. Although vocabulary and verbal abilities remain same in elder age but choice of proper words and names in conversion get effected with age factors. Beside age other factors also affect these cognitive abilities, both in positive and negative manner. Health conditions [6], moods and other emotionsalso contribute in the level of these skills. Cognitive ability can be affected by the basic human emotions: as happiness, sadness, anger, fear, disgust, surprise as well as stress. Intensity of emotions has a great impact on the behavior, attention and decision making of a human being [7]. This shows that if we understand the relationship between human and its environment then we can determine the intensity of emotion of that specific person. Emotions have a great impact on cognitive skills because according to AlZoubi et al. [8] performance of a person not only depends upon cognitive skills but also depends on different human emotions and motivations. Emotions can be of different types. According to Plutchik [9] there can be eight different emotions as: Fear, Trust, anger, sadness, joy, disgust, anticipation and surprise. He arranged these in a graphical shape that is known as Plutchik wheel of emotion as shown in Fig. 1. Such Categorization of emotions is not new; in past Aristotle also arrange human emotions as: Sadique Ahmad, Awais Adnan, Gulnawar Khan, and Nasir Mehmood Emotions, Age, and Gender Based Cognitive Skills Calculations International Journal of Computer Theory and Engineering, Vol. 7, No. 1, February 2015 76 DOI: 10.7763/IJCTE.2015.V7.934