mental processes
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It suggests that some mental processes linked to ADHD, including defocused attention, may also support creative thinking when they are directed in productive ways.
From Science Daily ● Sep. 3, 2026
Psychologists often use the task to measure what is known as executive control, a set of mental processes that helps people regulate attention, resist distractions, and stay focused on goals.
From Science Daily ● Jun. 10, 2026
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
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
