mental representation

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mental representation - a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or imageinternal representation, representationoverlap, convergence, intersection - a representation of common ground between theories or phenomena; "there was no overlap between their proposals"cognitive content, mental object, content - the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learnedinstantiation - a representation of an idea in the form of an instance of it; "how many instantiations were found?"antitype - a person or thing represented or foreshadowed by a type or symbol; especially a figure in the Old Testament having a counterpart in the New Testamentstereotype - a conventional or formulaic conception or image; "regional stereotypes have been part of America since its founding"schema, scheme - an internal representation of the world; an organization of concepts and actions that can be revised by new information about the worldimage, mental image - an iconic mental representation; "her imagination forced images upon her too awful to contemplate"interpretation, reading, version - a mental representation of the meaning or significance of somethingphantasmagoria - a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)psychosexuality - the mental representation of sexual activitiespercept, perception, perceptual experience - the representation of what is perceived; basic component in the formation of a conceptmemory - something that is remembered; "search as he would, the memory was lost"example, model - a representative form or pattern; "I profited from his example"appearance - a mental representation; "I tried to describe his appearance to the police"blur, fuzz - a hazy or indistinct representation; "it happened so fast it was just a blur"; "he tried to clear his head of the whisky fuzz"unrealism, abstractionism - a representation having no reference to concrete objects or specific examplesconcrete representation, concretism - a representation of an abstract idea in concrete terms