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A '''mental representation''' (or '''cognitive representation'''), in [[philosophy]] of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|url = https://philpapers.org/archive/MORRGM.pdf|title = Representations Gone Mental|last = Morgan|first = Alex|date = 2014|journal = Synthese |volume=191 |issue=2|doi = 10.1007/s11229-013-0328-7|pages = 213–44|s2cid = 18194442}}</ref> or else a mental process that makes use of such a symbol:  "a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this". Essentially the brain is thought of as a computer, where the idea is that the brain is hardware and the mind is software.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marr|first=David|year=2010|isbn=978-0262514620|title=Vision. A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information|publisher=The MIT Press|author-link=David Marr (neuroscientist)}}</ref>
A '''mental representation''' (or '''cognitive representation'''), in [[philosophy]] of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroScience [[Category:Science]], and cognitive Science [[Category:Science]], is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality,<ref name=":0">{{Cite journal|url = https://philpapers.org/archive/MORRGM.pdf|title = Representations Gone Mental|last = Morgan|first = Alex|date = 2014|journal = Synthese |volume=191 |issue=2|doi = 10.1007/s11229-013-0328-7|pages = 213–44|s2cid = 18194442}}</ref> or else a mental process that makes use of such a symbol:  "a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this". Essentially the brain is thought of as a computer, where the idea is that the brain is hardware and the mind is software.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Marr|first=David|year=2010|isbn=978-0262514620|title=Vision. A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information|publisher=The MIT Press|author-link=David Marr (neuroscientist)}}</ref>


==References==
==References==

Latest revision as of 15:08, 13 February 2023

A mental representation (or cognitive representation), in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroScience, and cognitive Science, is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality,[1] or else a mental process that makes use of such a symbol: "a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this". Essentially the brain is thought of as a computer, where the idea is that the brain is hardware and the mind is software.[2]

References

  1. ↑ Morgan, Alex (2014). "Representations Gone Mental". Synthese 191 (2): 213–44. doi:10.1007/s11229-013-0328-7. https://philpapers.org/archive/MORRGM.pdf. 
  2. ↑ Vision. A Computational Investigation into the Human Representation and Processing of Visual Information The MIT Press (2010). ISBN 978-0262514620
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