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
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
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
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
