mental processes
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Researchers want to understand what happens inside the brains of spiders and insects during sleep, and whether different sleep stages contribute to learning and other mental processes.
From Science Daily ● Oct. 27, 2026
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
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
Tests designed to mimic the mental processes involved in team sports assessed 241 women's reaction time, attention, accuracy, and spatial cognition - 14 days apart.
From BBC ● Jun. 5, 2024
Popper distinguished between the world of physical objects, the world of mental processes and the third world, the world of ‘problems, conjectures, theories, arguments, journals and books’.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
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