"Mental representation" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... apperception of the stimulus— took place slowly and imperfectly, owing to the state of sleep, so that the reaction was, to begin with, only remotely relevant to the stimulus, but improved in relevancy with successive evocations, until the mental representation closely approximated ...
— The Journal of Abnormal Psychology - Volume 10
... health, and in some respects according to nature. Existence, then, and non-existence are not absolute, but relative, and the world of sleep as really exists for those who are asleep as the things that exist in waking exist, although they do not exist in sleep.[3] One mental representation, therefore, cannot be judged by another, which is also in a state of relation to existing physical and mental conditions. Diogenes states this principle even more decidedly in his exposition of this Trope. "The insane are not in a condition opposed to nature; why ...
— Sextus Empiricus and Greek Scepticism • Mary Mills Patrick
... this ink-bottle before me is producing in me, or in my mind, a mental representation of its form, volume, ...
— Five Years Of Theosophy • Various
... those of perception by the intermediary of the thoughts of a living person; and the deceased is perceived through a mental representation. The experiment, for this reason, is valueless as evidence of the reality of retrospective psychometry and consequently of the recording part played ...
— The Unknown Guest • Maurice Maeterlinck |
