Sentence examples for mental computations from inspiring English sources

The researchers found that 78percentt of those who reported doing mental arithmetic in English said they dreamed in English only, and that 54percentt of those who did mental computations in Spanish said they dreamed in Spanish only.

By the mid-nineteen-nineties, neuroscientists, using MRI machines and other advanced imaging techniques, had developed a basic understanding of the roles played by different parts of the brain in the performance of particular tasks, such as recognizing visual patterns, doing mental computations, and reacting to threats.

They hold that mental computations are implemented not by soul-stuff but rather by the brain.

Even though the functional paradigm describes numerous important computations (possibly including mental computations), it does not plausibly capture computation in general.

A Turing-style model proceeds at a very abstract level, not saying whether mental computations are implemented by physical stuff or Cartesian soul-stuff (Block 1983: 522).

Similarly, Searle has slowed down the mental computations to a range in which we humans no longer think of it as understanding (since understanding is ordinarily much faster)" (94 95).

Following a successful small-scale case study conducted by the authors, the aim of this randomized controlled trial was to further investigate the effects of a commercial off-the-shelf computer game on children's mental computation skills and on aspects of their self-perceptions.

A second, the dorsolateral (upper and outer-facing) surface of the frontal lobes, has been implicated in ongoing mental computation (including nonmoral reasoning, like deciding whether to get somewhere by plane or train).

In its recent update of the standards, the council reaffirmed the importance of developing problem-solving skills, reasoning and conceptual understanding while including attention to basic skills like estimation and mental computation.

They emphasize productivity of mental computation, as opposed to productivity of mental states.

Therefore, we see relational thinking as implicated in the selection and execution of mental computation strategies, and as such, is a central component of mental computation.