Speech production is a highly complex and extremely rapid process so that research into the involved mental mechanisms is very difficult.

Investigating the audible output of the speech production system is a way to understand these mental mechanisms.

What mental mechanism, what driving spiritual sense had impelled him on his hunt for faith?

Psychologists thought this might be an ancient mental mechanism which has survival value.

Around the same time Freud attempted to develop a neuro-physiological theory of unconscious mental mechanisms, which he soon gave up.

Also, whether other mammals have similar mental mechanisms to man is also a question with a considerable history.

Yet the legal system takes no account of such mental mechanisms.

In your Mode you do not employ magical or mental mechanisms.

Postulated mental mechanism whose function is to identify the activity of agents.

When they were putting your brain together, they seized the opportunity to create a mental mechanism dangerous to the plan.