mental imagery
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- noun
- /ˈmɛn.təl ˈɪm.ɪ.dʒəri/
- Specialized
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imaginación mental
- Athletes often rely on mental imagery to visualize their performance before a competition.
- create mental imagery
- use mental imagery
- mental imagery training
And it doesn't give this, this mental imagery of, you know, the summer of love in San Francisco or of, of, you know, kaleidoscope eyes, right?
- And it doesn't give this, this mental imagery of, you know, the summer of love in San Francisco or of, of, you know, kaleidoscope eyes, right?
Examples
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Encourage students to use mental imagery to connect what they read with their personal experiences.
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The students used mental imagery to emulate characteristic tone quality and to improve their musical accuracy and expression.
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Some texts lend themselves to creating mental imagery more than others.
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When practicing mental imagery, some athletes view themselves as if they were watching themselves in a movie.
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The students trained in using mental imagery identified the inconsistencies more than twice as well as students in the control group did.
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We know that people's judgements about policies are commonly influenced by the kind of mental imagery that we think about when an issue is brought up.
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When Ms. Dahl asked students to employ the brain movies strategy in independent reading, she found many examples of how mental imagery aids in making meaning and thinking deeply about the subject matter.
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Math-gifted children exhibit signs of enhanced right-hemisphere development, and when engaged in the thinking process, tend to rely on mental imagery.
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Suggest that some students may find it easier to visualize if they watch you as you read, whereas others may find it easier to create mental imagery by closing their eyes or gazing at a wall or out the window.
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Other teachers who have introduced their students to brain movies report that explicit instruction on creating mental imagery enlivens classroom discussions, reinforces connections between what students already know about a topic and what they are learning, and improves their writing.
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Synonyms
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The ability to form new pictures and ideas in your mind that are not real
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The ability to make pictures in your mind
How Vivid
Surface Forms
Morphology
The meaning 'the ability to form pictures or images in the mind' is directly and compositionally derived from 'mental' (pertaining to the mind) + 'imagery' (creating visual images). This adjective+noun combination follows a straightforward, cross-linguistically common pattern, so a B1 learner who knows both constituents will readily understand the MWE.
Etymology
Mental imagery comes from the simple idea of making pictures inside your mind: mental means 'in the mind' and imagery means 'pictures'. When you close your eyes and see a scene like a photo in your head, that is mental imagery, so the phrase means 'the ability to form images in the mind'.