information vs cognition

information and cognition both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
information	Yes	No	No	No
cognition	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, cognition is a hypernym of information; that is, cognition is a word with a broader meaning than information:

information: knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
cognition: the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

Other hypernyms of information include knowledge, noesis.

information (noun)	cognition (noun)
(communication theory) a numerical measure of the uncertainty of an outcome	the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning
knowledge acquired through study or experience or instruction
a message received and understood
formal accusation of a crime
a collection of facts from which conclusions may be drawn