mentation

Definition

Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.

Example Sentences

• "Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone."
• "Suggesting that meditative training may foster the ability to control the automatic cascade of semantic associations triggered by a stimulus and, by extension, to voluntarily regulate the flow of spontaneous mentation."
• "Behavioral economists argue a worldview based on the notion that human mentation is frail and flawed, leading to irrational choices that fail to adequately consider the wider structure of alternatives."

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