"mental action" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
You can use it to describe a cognitive process, or a process that occurs within the mind. For example: "Solving the mathematical problem required intense mental action."
The mental action, however, was far more disorienting and sometimes edged toward violence.
(Wiest: "I wish I had asked people like Estelle Parsons, who played Winnie, 'How did you begin to memorize it? And project mental action?' I didn't know").
They found that the "mental action" of counting happened at the same speed regardless of whether volunteers were dreaming or awake, but the "physical actions" took longer in dreams than in real life.
It may seem obvious that our mental lives are filled with mental action.
Accordingly, they took sui generis mental action in the material world to be perfectly consistent with the principle of physics.
Patients' expression of mental action on the Phenomena that we generally call 'cancer' was only confined to perception, for instance, 'feeling the tumour'.
Because her poems enact the states — bewilderment, estrangement, panic, elation — that they describe, they are unusually subject to their own mental actions.
Several distinct mental actions are commonly embraced by this term; but everyone understands what is meant, when it is said that instinct impels the cuckoo to migrate and to lay its eggs in other birds' nests.
At the beginning of the chapter titled "Instinct" in his crucial work On the Origin of Species (1859), he declined to attempt to define the term: Several distinct mental actions are commonly embraced by this term; but everyone understands what is meant, when it is said that instinct impels the cuckoo to migrate and to lay its eggs in other birds' nests.
All self-forming actions, he argues, are acts of will; they are mental actions.
Patients' mental actions (cognition and desideration in particular) regarding different treatments seemed to be minimal in their discourse.
