Sentence examples for based on a mental from inspiring English sources

We explore the hypothesis that many intuitive physical inferences are based on a mental physics engine that is analogous in many ways to the machine physics engines used in building interactive video games.

"I was very scared," said a 61-year-old Russian-speaking woman from Brooklyn, explaining through a translator about the confrontations she said she had with Maximus operators as she tried to apply for a waiver, based on a mental illness, physical disability and a language barrier.

Here the self is assumed to be no longer based on a mental substance but rather on representing and reflecting about the biological processes in the own body and brain.

Pervasive preventive misconception was based on a mental model of prevention trials as interventions, overestimation of likely efficacy of candidate vaccines and likelihood of being assigned to the experimental group, with expectations of protective benefits and decreased condom use.

We have selected only patients who could give informed consent in spite of dementia, based on a mental competence assessment of the patient done by a clinician steeped in dementia care, or patients with dementia who had a Legally Appointed Representative (LAR, usually a close relative) who could provide informed consent on their behalf if they lack mental capacity to do so.

It has long been recognized that controller strategies are based on a 'mental picture' or representation of traffic situations.

Nearly two years ago, the Social Security Administration first moved to set up a new system that would automatically turn over to the Justice Department information it collects on Americans who are receiving federal benefits based on a disabling mental illness for inclusion in a database used for gun background checks.

Cutting often serves the purpose of either a) to feel something, b) to use pain to block something else out or c) may be based on a secondary mental health challenge such as Borderline Personality Disorder.

The controls were 75 years and older and were absent of AD based on a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score test> = 26 (adjusted for age and education) and a Montreal Cognitive Assessment (MoCA) score test> = 26 (adjusted for education) at the time of recruitment.

Participants (N=100) were enrolled in the Sydney SMART trial 28 and were community-dwelling adults aged over 55 years with diagnosis of MCI: self-reported memory complaint; objective cognitive deficit based on a mini-mental status examination (MMSE) 31 score of 23 29; and no dementia (Clinical Dementia Rating of 0.5 or below).

Exclusion criteria for both groups were transient ischemic attack or noninvalidating stroke in the past 2 years or any invalidating stroke, neurologic diseases (unrelated to diabetes) likely to affect cognition, known history of psychiatric disorders requiring hospitalization, indication of dementia based on a Mini-Mental State Examination (MMSE) score ≤24, and alcohol abuse.