mental processes
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My executive function, the set of mental processes that help order the day-to-day — like organization, working memory, time management and focus — was in shambles.
From Salon • Sep. 22, 2025
On the face of it, he is perhaps more a middle-class loner, and his apparent normality suggests a crime triggered by internalised mental processes, rather than by peer-driven association or emulation.
From BBC • Jun. 13, 2025
Like working with a nonverbal infant, he and Zhu had to infer the underlying mental processes from the behavior alone.
From Science Daily • Apr. 26, 2024
While current technological limitations prevent the decoder from being widely used, for good or ill, the authors emphasize the need to enact proactive policies that protect the privacy of one’s internal mental processes.
From Scientific American • May 1, 2023
On the contrary, orthodoxy in the full sense demands a control over one's own mental processes as complete as that of a contortionist over his body.
From "1984" by George Orwell
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