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Meanings of mental imagery in English

Portuguese
imaginação
Catalan
representació mental
Spanish
representación

The ability to form mental images of things or events.

        imaginação

        Neurobiological process.

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                Usage of mental imagery in English
                1
                There is an absence of flexibility in the mental imagery of most persons.
                Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
                2
                Lastly, the imagination is the exercise of mental imagery-thepicturings of silent thought.
                The Light of Egypt; Or, The Science of the Soul and the Stars — ...
                3
                They will illustrate the gorgeousness of the mental imagery of some favoured persons.
                Inquiries into Human Faculty and Its Development
                4
                This is a psychic process dependent upon the mental imagery of the healer.
                The Hindu-Yogi Science of Breath
                5
                So far, research on birth-related mental imagery in pregnancy is lacking.
                Pubmed
                6
                Further support comes from studies in mental imagery, timing, and memory.
                Pubmed
                7
                No differences emerged on any of the mental imagery measures, nor on reality monitoring accuracy.
                Pubmed
                8
                At any rate, success seems to depend largely upon the ability to manipulate mental imagery.
                The Measurement of Intelligence / An Explanation of and a Comple...
                9
                This suggests that there is no stable disposition towards abnormal mental imagery associated with hallucinations.
                Pubmed
                10
                But this constituent of the intensity of sensations is absent in mental imagery(p. 419).
                The Analysis of Mind
                11
                My mental imagery needed a little work if I was going to stay calm and cool.
                Gentlemen prefer succubi
                12
                Distortions in mental imagery may underlie such confusions.
                Pubmed
                13
                Stuttering also seems to be affected by the quality of mental imagery, by attention and by association.
                The Journal of Abnormal Psychology, Volume 10
                14
                The mental imagery, your mind can just wander, floating, attaching to the little sounds that float through.
                Radio NZ
                15
                The mental imagery was palpable.
                Radio NZ
                16
                As for mental imagery, you cannot burn that except by turning the Finger of Wrath against your own skulls.
                Gather, Darkness!
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                Translations for mental imagery
                Portuguese
                imaginação
                Mental imagery through the time
                Mental imagery across language varieties
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                United Kingdom
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