noun
mentation
Mentation (noun) means the activity of the mind, such as thinking.
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The activity of the mind, such as thinking.
"Suggesting that meditative training may foster the ability to control the automatic cascade of semantic associations triggered by a stimulus and, by extension, to voluntarily regulate the flow of spontaneous mentation."
— Pagnoni G. Cekic M. Guo Y, Thinking about Not Thinking Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation (2008)
"Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone."
— Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2 (1995)
"Behavioral economists argue a worldview based on the notion that human mentation is frail and flawed, leading to irrational choices that fail to adequately consider the wider structure of alternatives."
— Shoshana Zuboff (2018)
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ablation
allusion
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What is the meaning of mentation?
"mentation" (noun) means the activity of the mind, such as thinking.
What is another word for mentation?
Other words for "mentation" include thought, intellection, thinking, cerebration.
