BioConcepts

mental representationreprésentation mentale (fr.); mentale Repräsentation (ger.)

• In theories of cognition and perception based on ‘direct realism’, a direct mapping of sensory stimuli in the brain. (Dictionary of Media and Communication 2012)
  category consciousness

  1721

  Sans avoir l’idée d’une chose, c’est à dire, sans en avoir une représentation mentale, vous ne âuriez la concevoir, ni en parler, ni en disputer

  Olivet, P.J. de (1721). Entretiens de Ciceron sur la nature des dieux, Bd. 1: 61.

  1762

  Christ was at this time carried into the wilderness […] in a spiritual manner, in vision or mental representation, under a divine inspiration

  Anonymus (1762). [Rez. Farmer, H. (1761). An Enquiry into the Nature and Design of Christ’s Temptation in the Wilderness]. The Monthly Review 25, 130-141: 133f.

  1773

  L’idée est essentiellement une représentation mentale d’un objet

  Richard, C.-L. (1773). La nature en contraste avec la religion et la raison: 303.

  1798

  mental representation [...] mean[s] the effect which an external object produces on our mind, so that we become conscious of its existence

  Chrichton, A. (1798). An Inquiry into the Nature and Origin of Mental Derangement, 2 vols.: I, 293; vgl. 300.

  1843

  The mind can conceive a multitude of individual things as one assemblage or class; and general names do really suggest to us certain ideas or mental representations

  Mill, J.S. (1843). A System of Logic, vol. 2: 212 (IV, ii, §1); cf. id. (1865). An Examination of Sir William Hamilton’s Philosophy (Collected Works, vol. 9, 1979): 313 (ch. XVII).