mental activity

collocation in English

meaningsofmentalandactivity

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mental
adjective
uk
/ˈmen.təl/us
/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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activity
noun
uk
/ækˈtɪv.ə.ti/us
/ækˈtɪv.ə.t̬i/
the situation in which a lot of things are happening or people are ...
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(Definition ofmentalandactivityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Perhaps, cerebral activation is the physiological basis underlyingmentalactivity.
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They are distinguished frommentalactivitythat is purely verbal or abstract.
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Far from being "compelled," dreaming can be considered the least constrained type ofmentalactivity.
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This is not the case, however, with regard tomentalactivity.
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All but one of these arementalactivityverbs, which are typically low in transitivity.
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The act of combination of the sense impressions is amentalactivity.
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Dreaming is not the only aspect ofmentalactivitythat has such loose attributes.
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In other words, their forms of cognition andmentalactivityreflected their concrete and practical experience.
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Interdisciplinary work is, after all, a social as well asmentalactivity.
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In action, language could also serve as a dialogic vehicle formentalactivity.
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Deliberation is a much richermentalactivity, although its product is frequently presented in logical terms.
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Consequently, our framework is not confined tomentalactivity; it also has a task component.
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It is possible that subjects might engage in additional incidentalmentalactivityduring the easier task.
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Particularly because of their inability to work, they needmentalactivityand the means formentalactivityin those camps.
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One would think that such a dramatic change in regulation would, in some way, feed back intomentalactivity.
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We prefer to use the term "sleep mentation" formentalactivityduring sleep that does not meet this criterion.
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The question is about the nature ofmentalactivity, and this is intimately related to the issue of specificity.
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Furthermore, on his account allmentalactivityhad its ultimate impetus outside the mind, in the sources of impressions.
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As a creativementalactivity, fiction is in the privileged position of admitting readers to diverse subjective perspectives and views.
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The 'place' is the physical fabric - of the land and the building whereas the 'space' involves activity (includingmentalactivity).
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This binding process is presemantic (thus, independent of concrete events) and defines a "working platform" formentalactivity.
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This in turn could lead children to a more robust understanding of their own and others'mentalactivity.
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This lack ofmentalactivitysuggests that the mind is not independent of the physical brain structures of the organism.
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This leads him to consider infants to be devoid of anymentalactivity(in this strict sense).
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This literature argues that the apparently stable behaviour of groups of individuals may have been generated by very differentmentalactivity.
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