mentation
Brain at work
Mentation is mental activity—the processes of thinking, perceiving, and cognizing.
The term appears primarily in medical and psychological contexts: The patient showed altered mentation after the head injury.
It describes the overall state or quality of someone's mental functioning rather than specific thoughts.
Mental reasoning process
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- ideationForming mental concepts
- conceptualizationMental creation of ideas
- understandingMental comprehension of something
comprehension · perception · judgment · inference · abstraction · synthesis · imagination · speculation
Mental knowledge acquisition
- neuropsychologyScience of brain-cognition relationships
- psychometricsPsychological measurement science
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
- evaluationDetermining worth or quality
diagnosis · neuroscience · impairment · dysfunction · capacity · baseline · decline · deterioration
State of perceiving reality
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- wakefulnessState of being conscious
- alertnessActive mental awareness
- lucidityClearness of mind
mindfulness · self-awareness · attention · attentiveness · vigilance · presence · sapience · phenomenology
Scrutiny of one's thoughts
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
- ponderingThinking deeply about something
musing · self-reflection · self-analysis · self-observation · self-scrutiny · soul-searching · navel-gazing · retrospection
thinking
Mental reasoning process
- reasoningDrawing logical conclusions
- ideationForming mental concepts
- conceptualizationMental creation of ideas
understanding · comprehension · perception · judgment · inference · abstraction · synthesis · imagination · speculation · visualization
cognition
Mental knowledge acquisition
- neuropsychologyScience of brain-cognition relationships
- psychometricsPsychological measurement science
- assessmentFormal evaluation of worth
evaluation · diagnosis · neuroscience · impairment · dysfunction · capacity · baseline · decline · deterioration · screening
awareness
State of perceiving reality
- sentienceCapacity for subjective experience
- wakefulnessState of being conscious
- alertnessActive mental awareness
lucidity · mindfulness · self-awareness · attention · attentiveness · vigilance · presence · sapience · phenomenology · qualia
self-examination
Scrutiny of one's thoughts
- contemplationSustained reflective attention
- meditationFocused attention practice
- ruminationProlonged, repetitive thinking
pondering · musing · self-reflection · self-analysis · self-observation · self-scrutiny · soul-searching · navel-gazing · retrospection · brooding
mentationphysical exertion
Bodily labor or strain
manual labor · locomotion · movement · physicality · kinesis
mentationunconsciousness
Complete lack of awareness
mindlessness · thoughtlessness · stupor · coma · oblivion
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