He could think of nothing else save his mental image of her nude figure and what Charles had said that morning about Margaret Rider.

Merely having a mental image of some sort is not the all-important consideration.

Every dream, and this is true of a mental image of any type even though it may be readily interpreted into its equivalent of wakeful thought, is a psychic phenomenon for which no explanation is available.

The entire concept of cerebral imagery as the physical basis of a mental image can find no logical support.

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In Dianetics, the unconscious or reactive mind is described as a collection of " mental image pictures ," which contain the recorded experience of past moments of unconsciousness, including all sensory perceptions and feelings involved, ranging from pre-natal experiences, infancy and childhood, even the traumatic feelings associated events from past lives and alien cultures.

The type of mental image picture created during a period of unconsciousness involves the exact recording of a painful experience.

It describes mental processes as computational operations, so that, for example, a fear response is described as arising from a neurological computation that inputs the perceptional data, e. g. a visual image of a spider, and outputs the appropriate reaction, e. g. fear of possibly dangerous animals.

The fake town was thereby created in Gumm's mental image to accommodate his dementia so that he would continue predicting missile strikes in the guise of submitting entries to a harmless newspaper contest and without the ethical qualms involved with being on the " wrong " side of a civil war.

There is no mental image of a triangle in general.

Indirect realism provides an account of issues such as qualia, dreams, imaginings, hallucinations, illusions, the resolution of binocular rivalry, the resolution of multistable perception, the modelling of motion that allows us to watch TV, the sensations that result from direct brain stimulation, the update of the mental image by saccades of the eyes and the referral of events backwards in time.

The experiment consisted of Sherman and Wilkins at the end of each day to relax and visualise a mental image or " thought impression " of the events or thoughts they had experienced in the day and then to record those images and thoughts on paper in a diary.

Powerful discussions are claimed to arise from personal connections to an abstract idea ( thought, mental image or notion ) or from a personal value ( an idea that is desirable or worthy for its own sake ).

Contrary to their demonized public image, many hallucinogens and psychedelics have shown vastly better potential for actual curing of mental diseases that current medications only temporarily fix and in most cases worsen over time.

A mental image exists in an individual's mind: something one remembers or imagines.

When a despairing Roy inadvertently sees a television news program about the train wreck near Devils Tower, he realizes the mental image of a mountain plaguing him is real.

Studies have shown that Asian Americans suffer from higher rates of stress, depression, mental illnesses, and suicides in comparison to other races, indicating that the pressures to achieve and live up to the model minority image may take a mental and psychological toll on Asian Americans.

He argued that, while finally all deduction depends in one way or another on mental experimentation on schemata or diagrams, still in corollarial deduction " it is only necessary to imagine any case in which the premisses are true in order to perceive immediately that the conclusion holds in that case ," whereas theorematic deduction " is deduction in which it is necessary to experiment in the imagination upon the image of the premiss in order from the result of such experiment to make corollarial deductions to the truth of the conclusion.

According to son Scott his mother never forgot about her childhood hometown, using the mental image of a Jamesport cemetery in preparation for her Oscar-nominated role in Our Town.

It also improves mental health, helps prevent depression, helps to promote or maintain positive self-esteem, and can even augment an individual's sex appeal or body image, which is also found to be linked with higher levels of self-esteem.

When large amounts of vocabulary must be acquired in a limited amount of time, when the learner needs to recall information quickly, when words represent abstract concepts or are difficult to picture in a mental image, or when discriminating between false cognates, rote memorization is the method to use.

Some of us might be inclined to argue, in fact, that an independence of mind and action and an intolerance of regimentation, either mental or physical, are particularly Southern traits.

Moreover, the shortage of treatment resources and the chronically persistent shortage of mental health manpower force us to innovate additional refinements of preventive intervention techniques to make services more widely available -- and on a more effective basis to more people.

His explanations provide more complex answers through our various mental strategies in theory of mind that lead us to believe we are conscious as well as other people while trees and rocks are not conscious.

" He felt that " the well-known example of the Jews, with their strong disposition towards nervous and mental disorders, teaches us that their extraordinarily advanced domestication may eventually imprint clear marks on the race ".

# Beliefs, conscious mental states, and other facts about us and our environment ( which we may or may not have access to ).

Thus, although they would admit from the problem of pretense, that at no one time can we claim to have access to another's mental state, they are not permanently unavailable to us.

" Beginning in 1947 Swedish psychiatrist Snorre Wohlfahrt evaluated early trials, reporting that it is " distinctly hazardous to leucotomize schizophrenics " and lobotomy to be " still too imperfect to enable us, with its aid, to venture on a general offensive against chronic cases of mental disorder " and stating that " Psychosurgery has as yet failed to discover its precise indications and contraindications and the methods must unfortunately still be regarded as rather crude and hazardous in many respects.

The state of mind produced by that shock is reflected in his novel Ultime lettere di Jacopo Ortis ( The Last Letters of Jacopo Ortis ) ( 1798 ), which was described by the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica as a more politicized version of Goethe's The Sorrows of Young Werther, " for the hero of Foscolo embodies the mental sufferings and suicide of an undeceived Italian patriot just as the hero of Goethe places before us the too delicate sensitiveness embittering and at last cutting short the life of a private German scholar.

Through the reader's mental effort of hearing that which is not quite spoken and supplying the want thereof Shadbolt involves us most intimately in the dialogue.

The core mental aspects of what makes us human has been a staple of science fiction films, particularly since the 1980s.

According to Adi Shankara in his Vivekachudamani morally right action ( characterised as humbly and compassionately performing the primary duty of good to others without expectation of material or spiritual reward ), helps " purify the heart " and provide mental tranquility but it alone does not give us " direct perception of the Reality ".

But his skepticism is about current physics: he envisages in his most recent work that people may be close to a scientific breakthrough in identifying an underlying essence that is neither physical ( as people currently think of the physical ), nor functional, nor mental, but such that it necessitates all three of these ways in which the mind " appears " to us.

It consists of beliefs, ideals, values, schemata and mental models which are deeply ingrained in us and which we often take for granted.

# That the mental laws that regulate the progress of society cannot be discovered by the metaphysical method, that is, by the introspective study of the individual mind, but only by such a comprehensive survey of facts as enable us to eliminate disturbances, that is, by the method of averages

I think it is time for us to start a long-term project that gets people thinking past the mental barrier of the Millennium.

Whatever may be the conclusion to which our scientific inquiries may lead us, we should always remember, that by whatever means the Negro, for instance, acquired his present physical, mental and moral character, whether he has risen from an ape or descended from a perfect man, we still know that the Races of Europe have now much in their mental and moral nature which the races of Africa have not got.

Such activity will make us appear ambiguous ( unpredictable ) thereby generate confusion and disorder among our adversaries -- since our adversaries will be unable to generate mental images or pictures that agree with the menacing as well as faster transient rhythm or patterns they are competing against.

The principles of cognitive neuropsychology have recently been applied to mental illness, with a view to understanding, for example, what the study of delusions may tell us about the function of normal belief.

The term " panpsychism " has its origins with the term pan, meaning " throughout " or " everywhere ", and psyche, meaning " soul " as the unifying center of the mental life of us humans and other living creatures.

" He quotes the physicist Arthur Eddington in support of his position as follows ; " If we must embed our schedule of indicator readings in some kind of background, at least let us accept the only hint we have received as to the significance of the background-namely that it has a nature capable of manifesting itself as a mental activity.

In this view, mental images allow us to form useful theories of how the world works by formulating likely sequences of mental images in our heads without having to directly experience that outcome.