mentation

Noun

1. Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.
   • Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone. - 1995, Richard Powers, Galatea 2.2, New York, N.Y.: Farrar Straus Giroux, →ISBN, page 28:
   • 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....
   • 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. - 2018, Shoshana...