The Right hemisphere has been linked with mental strategies that are nonverbal, synthetic, integrative, holistic, and Gestalt which makes it ideal for processing emotion.
Before my scan began, I was prepped in different mental strategies for increasing and modulating my pain.
Heuristics usually govern automatic, intuitive judgments but can also be used as deliberate mental strategies when working from limited information.
An additional mental strategy involves creating and experiencing a location of relaxation in the mind.
The last mental strategy involves the chronic headache patient visualizing a place of stress in his or her life and imagining a relaxed response.
Rather, it affects its own specific receptor cites for motion (movement strategy) and memory (mental strategies).
Preschool children use simple tactics for remembering but do not use mental strategies and do not typically differentiate memory and perception.
They'll realize that a television show and a marshmallow can be resisted with an identical set of mental strategies.
These rituals allow kids to develop the optimal mental strategies on their own, which means they'll figure out which distracting thoughts work best for them.
(This discrepancy disappears once the kids are taught some simple mental strategies.)