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

This suggests a "hybrid" nature of these death whistle sounds, combining a basic psychoaffective influence on listeners with more elaborate mental processes of sound symbolism, signifying the iconographic nature.

From Science Daily • Nov. 19, 2024

But when people are putting thoughts into words, their mental processes may be different, depending on the language they are using.

From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2023

“But will all qualitative treatment of mental processes be out of the question then? By no means!”

From "A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age" by Matt Richtel