Sentence examples for mental dynamics from inspiring English sources

"We have a body of research on the mental dynamics of reading: the waxing and waning of memory load as readers comprehend a passage, the incrementing of their knowledge as they come to grasp its meaning, the blind alleys that can lead them astray".

By way of unfair comparison, Dr. Robert Nesse, a Mayo Clinic family-practice physician, told me he might spend up to an hour with a patient during a first physical, having a long discussion of family history, recent changes or abnormalities and social and mental dynamics; doing dermatological, pelvic and breast exams; and suggesting a schedule of preventive services.

But as little as Giulia and her classmates may have liked it, the curriculum was part of an unusual educational experiment — one of an increasing number using tools of cognitive psychology, which focuses on the mental dynamics behind thinking, remembering and problem solving.

Although the situation regarding mental dynamics is much more complex, we can still apply the turbulent flow analogy.

Let us first analyze spontaneous mental dynamics in a stationary environment where the brain is not engaged in a particular cognitive function, i.e., resting-state brain dynamics.

The modulation instability that we have observed in the computer experiments discloses a plausible dynamical origin of low frequency mental mode dynamics in the resting states, possibly related to the "cortical-subcortical cross-talk" [58].

Unlike, for example, the lexical Big Five tradition of personality research, social-cognitive theories are concerned fundamentally with mental structures and dynamics that causally contribute to personality functioning and coherence, and with understanding how these cognitive and affective systems develop and function in interaction with the social environment.

Why David Felix broke off contact with his family, whether it had to do with his mental health, family dynamics, or some other factor, is unclear.

The model is computationally fast and reproduces the complicated experi-mental structures and dynamics observed at high supersaturations.

All that was necessary, it turns out, was one key tweak to normal mental functioning or group dynamics.

If we understand the dynamics of mental life in real detail – to speak particularly of our case, if we understand the human brain in real detail – then we will know how various experiences and ways of living with one another – thoughts, intentions and behaviours – affect human life.