mentation

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)Mental activity or mental state, including cognition or, more specifically, thinking.

   “Recursive by nature, mentation wasn’t going to yield to measurement alone.”

   “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.”