The phrase "mental device" is correct and usable in written English
It can be used to refer to a cognitive tool or mechanism that aids in thinking, problem-solving, or understanding concepts.
Example: "The author describes a mental device that helps students visualize complex mathematical problems."
Alternatives: "cognitive tool" or "thinking aid."
"Mental" uses that device to get inside sick people's fantasies and phobias.
In the play, Shakespeare's health is fading and so are his mental faculties, a device that enables Mr. Brustein to pepper the script with references to "Hamlet" and other works, since he is constantly confusing the real people in his life with his characters.
This one includes various levels like somato-instinctive, emotional, affective and intellectual, this last one being subdivided into mental representations, automatic devices and mental syntheses.
What the census highlights is increased rates in detention and admission along with more people receiving community treatment orders, with some NHS mental trusts introducing tagging devices.
The authors identified several themes that are relevant to the use of mobile devices in mental health service delivery including, "The reconstruction of identity", "Coming to terms with living a technology-assisted life", and "Usability of devices".
At its simplest, the mind is a device for doing mental work.
He took a pragmatic attitude toward amphetamines, regarding them as a "labor-saving device" in the "mental kitchen," with the important proviso that "these mechanisms are very crude, liable to injure the cook, and constantly breaking down".
She is Bonnie J. Tisch, not Bonnie S. SUNDAY REVIEW A news analysis article last Sunday about medical innovations that could enhance humans' physical and mental performance incorrectly described a device called Braingate, which had helped a woman paralyzed by stroke to drink a canister of coffee by using a prosthetic arm controlled by thought.
The scattered attention hypothesis maintains the information processing theoretical approach to cognition, in which the brain is a device that employs mental resources to carry out operations and complete tasks.
The upside of this is taking mental notes, communicating with the device hands-free and maybe even recording a song you hear on the radio to identify it later.
