Sentence examples for mental scenario from inspiring English sources

Perhaps with time, such experiences will shift the question, "Would you hide Anne Frank in your attic?" to a mental scenario so far from reality that it will never need to be asked again.

The "insight" hypothesis claims that this complex behaviour is based on cognitive abilities such as mental scenario building and imagination.

These results are not consistent with the hypothesis that the crows built a mental scenario, either during their successful solution of the standard string-pulling problem or after the first pull-step on the visually-restricted apparatus.

This is because the crows would have already built a mental scenario in which they had imagined the effects of pulling and stepping on the string (i.e. it brought the meat closer) and so, during problem solving, could imagine the effects they were having on the string when perceptual feedback was not available or appeared neutral.

If birds are successful without access to feedback, a stronger case could be made that corvids are capable of mental scenario building.

Helplessly cognizant, I formed mental scenarios while drifting in and out of sleep.

In The Seventh Function he behaves much the same, still sneakily entrapping the reader in mental scenarios and whipping them right back out again.

At stake is what to make of the funny, sexual, scary and just plain bizarre mental scenarios that play themselves out in our heads while we sleep.

Awaiting lobotomy, she escapes into a dream world in which she's imprisoned in a luxury brothel where inmates enact outré fantasies (including a mental hospital scenario) for their clientele.

Or, in a mental healthcare scenario, it could be used to help monitor a dementia patient's moods.

But even without mental causation, scenario (B) is relevant to ubiquitous correlations between conscious mental states and brain states.