Metarepresent

verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To represent one's mental state as an emotion, memory etc.

    "The assumption was that one cannot properly monitor and control one’s own cognitive activity unless one is able to reflectively represent that one has first-order mental states, that is, unless one can metarepresent them as perceptions, memories, judgments, and so forth with specific contents [4 ][5 ]."

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"The assumption was that one cannot properly monitor and control one’s own cognitive activity unless one is able to reflectively represent that one has first-order mental states, that is, unless one can metarepresent them as perceptions, memories, judgments, and so forth with specific contents [4 ][5 ]."

Etymology

From meta- + represent.

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