Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun mentation
1 sense of mentation
Sense 1
thinking, thought, thought process, cerebration, intellection, mentation -- (the process of using your mind to consider something carefully; "thinking always made him frown"; "she paused for thought")
=> higher cognitive process -- (cognitive processes that presuppose the availability of knowledge and put it to use)