"mental operation" is a correct and usable phrase in written English.
It is used to refer to an activity done in the mind which often involves problem solving or thinking logically. For example, "Solving a complex math equation requires a lot of mental operations".
For Zadie Smith, criticism is a bodily pleasure, not an abstracted mental operation.
Reading horror stories pretty inevitably involves the mental operation Samuel Taylor Coleridge called the "willing suspension of disbelief," and Lord knows it can be a challenge, even for genre-hardened veterans.
These results underscore the emerging consensus that, rather than comprising a single mental operation, social cognition makes flexible use of different processes as a function of the particular demands of the social context.
Eagerly awaited by those who have followed Anderson's work, this book should be a revelation to anyone who believes that every mental operation has its own special brain area.
Many modern philosophers have at this point felt the need to invoke imagination, either as a distinct mental "faculty" (Kant) or as a distinctive mental operation by virtue of which thought and experience may be united.
Presently, little is known about how the brain combines dual-tasking with a concurrent short-term memory task, despite the relevance of this mental operation in daily life and the frequency of complaints related to this process, in disease.
Hence, most of our mental operations occur "incognito".
Indeed, such mental operations cannot proceed consciously and sequentially.
Pashler, H. Overlapping mental operations in serial performance with preview.
You may think you can, because the toggle between the two mental operations is so fast.
More room can also be created in working memory by making mental operations automatic.
