internal representation
- noun
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representación interna
- These results are entirely consistent with the idea that one can support the internal representations created by older adults through the provision of visually distinctive environmental support, creating cognitive momentum and compensating for diminished representational abilities, probably resulting from speed-loss factors.
Examples
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Internal representations are usually associated with mental images that individuals create in their minds.
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The image presents itself as an internal representation of "Peter."
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The percept itself is a detailed, sensorily rich, internal representation of Peter.
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What begins simply as sequences of sensorimotor activity gradually develops into internal representations.
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This ability to provide linguistic mediation ties one event to another in a causal way, links the new to the familiar, and allows us to code events so that we can deal with these internal representations.
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With decreased exposure time, young adults behaved exactly in the manner of older adults, whose internal representations are proposed to be degraded naturally as a result of cognitive speed loss and the neural asynchrony that must result.
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Estes (1996) posited that internal representation and categorization are the attributes of higher-order human cognitive processes; both involve abstraction to represent the entity of the object of communication.
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Estes, W. (1996). Classification and cognition: A cognitive model of concept learning with a flexible internal representation system. New York: Oxford. Ferrari, P.L. (2003). Abstraction in mathematics. The Royal Society.
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She created an internal representation of the mountain she saw in the photograph, allowing her to visualize it in her mind.
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Children often form an internal representation of their favorite story characters based on descriptions in books.
Synonyms
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A clear image you form in your mind
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A picture you make in your mind of something not there
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An idea in your mind that stands for something you remember or imagine
How Detailed
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning — a representation that exists inside a system or model — is directly derivable from combining 'internal' (inside) with 'representation' (a depiction or standing-for something). B1 learners who know both words may not grasp technical details like vectors or activations, but they will understand the basic idea of an inner depiction, so the compound is compositionally transparent.
Etymology
Internal representation is like a small 'map' or 'picture' kept inside your mind — internal means 'inside' and representation is a 'picture' that stands for something outside. So when a child imagines the layout of a place, that inner 'map' helps them think and remember.