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Definition of Mental representation
1. Noun. A presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image.
Specialized synonyms: Convergence, Intersection, Overlap, Instantiation, Antitype, Stereotype, Schema, Scheme, Image, Mental Image, Interpretation, Reading, Version, Phantasmagoria, Psychosexuality, Percept, Perception, Perceptual Experience, Memory, Example, Model, Appearance, Blur, Fuzz, Abstractionism, Unrealism, Concrete Representation, Concretism
Generic synonyms: Cognitive Content, Content, Mental Object
Derivative terms: Represent, Represent
Lexicographical Neighbors of Mental Representation
Literary usage of Mental representation
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Individual Delinquent: A Text-book of Diagnosis and Prognosis for All by William Healy (1915)
"Learning Ability. § 66. Ability to Profit by Experience. § 67. Language Ability.
§. Arithmetical Ability. § 69. mental representation and Analysis. § 70. ..."
2. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by Philadelphia Neurological Society, American Neurological Association, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association (1906)
"This psychophysiological phenomenon is thus stated by the author: There enters
into every mental representation some motor elements. ..."
3. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease by American Neurological Association, Philadelphia Neurological Society, Chicago Neurological Society, New York Neurological Association, Boston Society of Psychiatry and Neurology (1905)
"This psychophysiological phenomenon is thus stated by the author: There enters
into every mental representation some motor elements. ..."
4. On Mr. Spencer's Unification of Knowledge by Malcolm Guthrie (1882)
"... our minds by symbols standing for unknowables of which we are unable to form
any mental representation, while the very attempt to do so only lauds us in ..."
5. Epistemology; Or, The Theory of Knowledge: An Introduction to General by Peter Coffey (1917)
"The argument confounds multiplicity of the notes or elements which give the nature
of an object, ie the intension of the mental representation, ..."
6. A Protest Against Agnosticism: The Rationale Or Philosophy of Belief by Penelope Frederica Fitzgerald (1890)
"Stated in a tabular form, my theory of the principles of mental representation
stands thus :— The idea or notion is of Being, ..."
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