mental processes
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One view, known as the cognitivist approach, argues that conscious experience depends on higher-level mental processes such as reasoning, reflection, and the integration of information across the brain.
From Science Daily ● Feb. 4, 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
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
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
