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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun In psychology, the reproduction in kind of a sensation or sense-perception; the sensation or sense-perception as it is pictured in memory.

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Examples

  • I did not want you to go, he silently told that vivid memory-image.

    Time for Yesterday A. C. Crispin 1990

  • And finally, perhaps, the most significant example for the effect of induced anisotropy lies in that differential impression made by stimulus on the sensory surfaces, which remains latent, and capable of revival, as the memory-image.

    Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose His Life and Speeches Sir Jagadis Chunder Bose

  • It was a dizzy-making montage because my perception senses the real figure of Marian, superimposed on the visual memory-image of Catherine.

    Highways in Hiding George Oliver Smith 1946

  • For example, a sound that we have just heard is present to us in a way which differs both from the sensation while we are hearing the sound and from the memory-image of something heard days or weeks ago.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • The word "this," in such a judgment, is a vague word, equally applicable to the present memory-image and to the past occurrence which is its prototype.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • There also we found that the difference consists merely of the fact that a memory-image is accompanied by a belief, in this case as to the past.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • In cases of this sort, habit (or association) explains why the present feature of the environment brings up the memory-image, but it does not explain the memory-belief.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • Our confidence or lack of confidence in the accuracy of a memory-image must, in fundamental cases, be based upon a characteristic of the image itself, since we cannot evoke the past bodily and compare it with the present image.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • For the present we must content ourselves with the fact that the memory-image can be explained by habit.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

  • Between memory-image and sensation there is an intermediate experience concerning the immediate past.

    The Analysis of Mind Bertrand Russell 1921

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