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Mental processes are processes of sensing, including feeling, thinking, perceiving, imagining, wanting , liking, etc. A mental process involves the Senser (A human participant in whose mind the process occurs) and the phenomenon which triggers the process, as shown below:

The label Senser is used in order to distinguish the participant of a mental process from that of a material process. Senser is normally a person or a personified entity. The verb representing a mental process is generally in a simple present or past tense, not in a progressive form, because the process of sensing is not a process of doing.

　 In addition to material processes, relational processes and mental processes discussed above, there are three less central types of linguistic process, each of which is intermingled with two of the three main types.