A mental representation (or cognitive representation), in philosophy of mind, cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science, is a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality, or else a mental process that makes use of such a symbol: "a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this."
Noun 1. a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image (synonym) representation, internal representation (hypernym) content, cognitive content, mental object (hyponym) overlap, convergence, intersection