mental image
collocation in Englishmeaningsofmentalandimage
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mental
adjective
uk/ˈmen.təl/us/-t̬əl/
relating to the mind, or involving the process ...
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image
noun
uk/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/us/ˈɪm.ɪdʒ/
a picture in your mind or an idea of how someone or ...
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(Definition ofmentalandimagefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)
Examplesofmental image
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You may be deceived about lots of things concerning yourmentalimage.
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So what happens when amentalimage(whether constructed or derived from memory) is superimposed over a scene?
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Thismentalimageis made up of the properties common to all types of dogs.
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So it is natural to speak of rotating amentalimage.
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The pictorial account of mental imagery rested on the demonstration thatmentalimageprocessing follows the same rules that perceptual processing follows.
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Physical tensions are caused by verbally orientated and teacher-led lessons where notation dominates, resulting in no clearmentalimageof what is being played.
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Unlike most neural imaging studies, this one relates a specific spatial property of a phenomenalmentalimage(its size) to a pattern of neural activity.
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In this view, a pre-existingmentalimageof a particular sound organisation, for example, will guide the subsequent perception of a similar sequence of sounds.
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They are certainly within me, in my memory, without passing by amentalimageas is the case with bodies.
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Such models are analogous to amentalimageused by a human.
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The fifth lexical variable examined here was imageability (or concreteness), the extent to which a word evokes amentalimage.
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The value of this particularmentalimageis that it helps to smoke out any residual naive realism that may remain hidden in our philosophy.
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These are not empirical facts about imagery, they are just claims about what the phrase "mentalimage" means.
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Imagine that there are lights at each of the places on yourmentalimageof the map.
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This linguistic form surely implies that something physical is happening to thementalimage.
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The spatial zone andmentalimageproduced by, or inferred from, a sounding source and its cause (if there is one).
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In other words, the articulatory gestures were seen as integral to thementalimageof speech sounds.
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This experience of involuntariness is what distinguishes a hypnotic hallucination from a simplementalimage, and posthypnotic amnesia from simple thought suppression.
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This result also seems to reflect a pattern in which the most common type ofmentalimagefor each group was literal-concrete-relevant (1).
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But finding that a largermentalimagemerely activated a different area of the brain is no help in this regard.
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