mental process
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalandprocess
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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process
noun[C]
uk/ˈprəʊ.ses/us/ˈprɑː.ses/
a series of actions that you take in order to achieve ...
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(Definition ofmentalandprocessfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
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It seems reasonable that the humanmentalprocessyielding a judgment is guided by a number of heuristics that unconsciously 'act behind the scenes'.
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When we cannot specify amentalprocessas conscious, there cannot be a theory of the neural basis of that process.
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So, how could consciousness of amentalprocesscarry out the functions of that process?
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But their moderate externalism involves no commitment to any particular view of the internalmentalprocess; internal processes are bracketed.
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Is that switch amentalprocess, an act of choosing, a model of the mind's free will?
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But as soon as we endeavor to penetrate more fully into thementalprocessinvolved in dreaming, every path will end in darkness.
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Alternatively, if conscious experience results from amentalprocess, it arrives too late to carry out the functions of that process.
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As a final example of what may be confusing for the novice reader, consider the treatment of material andmentalprocessverbs.
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Other picture-plane correlations may be used in other cases, to describe response times and other data given as evidence for amentalprocessof rotation.
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In the creative process of such musically 'intelligent' systems, one must involve some analysis of musical context and thementalprocessin performance and composition.
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It was not looking so much for output as formentalprocesschange.
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The peculiarity of this scenario is that the reasoning cannot be said to reflect thementalprocessby which the decision was reached.
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In order for the program to serve an explanatory role, the theorist must say how it maps onto thementalprocess.
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The resulting interiorisation of sonic qualities and their orientation in an overall conceptual structure is a prerequisite for an intuitive, creativementalprocess.
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Wynn lost the link between the environment and thementalprocess, the behaviour that the cognitive process enables.
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These steps characterize thementalprocessof assigning a plausible meaning, in context, to a new word.
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We think or feel basically in one parameter, though ourmentalprocess, naturally, then subdivides these different times.
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All three are concerned at length with perception as amentalprocess, and with the epistemological dimensions of sense physiology.
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This is often amentalprocessand representations at the different levels of abstraction may not be rendered graphically.
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