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The various games advertised to improve memory and in certain cases stave off dementia—Lumosity and its like—have little or no power to improve memory, attention, or good mentation.
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John Crowley,
Harper’s Magazine ,
4 Jan. 2022
Most broadly, Neubauer said, dreams are a type of mentation, or mental activity, that occurs when people are asleep and generally consists of vivid, hallucinatory visual content that is often bizarre or has irregular narratives.
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Washington Post,
4 Nov. 2021
For millions of years before the emergence of humans, elephants — like their equally weighty, waterborne counterparts, whales — roamed and conversed along vast corridors of migration and mentation.
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New York Times,
9 July 2019
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John Crowley,
Harper’s Magazine ,
4 Jan. 2022
Most broadly, Neubauer said, dreams are a type of mentation, or mental activity, that occurs when people are asleep and generally consists of vivid, hallucinatory visual content that is often bizarre or has irregular narratives.
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Washington Post,
4 Nov. 2021
For millions of years before the emergence of humans, elephants — like their equally weighty, waterborne counterparts, whales — roamed and conversed along vast corridors of migration and mentation.
—
New York Times,
9 July 2019
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“Mentation.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/mentation. Accessed 3 Jul. 2026.
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mentation
noun
men·ta·tion
men-ˈtā-shən 
: mental activity
unconscious mentation
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