gist vs cognitive content

gist and cognitive content both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
gist	Yes	No	No	No
cognitive content	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cognitive content is a hypernym of gist; that is, cognitive content is a word with a broader meaning than gist:

gist: the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience
cognitive content: the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

Other hypernyms of gist include content, mental object.

gist (noun)	cognitive content (noun)
the choicest or most essential or most vital part of some idea or experience	the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work