mentation

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Noun

mentation (countable and uncountable, plural mentations)

  1. Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
    • 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, →ISBN, page 28:
      Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone.
    • 2008, Pagnoni G. Cekic M. Guo Y., “Thinking about Not Thinking Neural Correlates of Conceptual Processing during Zen Meditation”, in PubMed‎[1], volume 3, number 9, PLoS One, →DOI, page 1:
      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.
    • 2018, Shoshana Zuboff, chapter 10, in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism:
      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.

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