metarepresent

English

Etymology

meta- + represent

Verb

metarepresent (third-person singular simple present metarepresents, present participle metarepresenting, simple past and past participle metarepresented)

  1. To represent one's mental state as an emotion, memory etc.
    • 2015 October 31, “Procedural Metacognition and False Belief Understanding in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI:
      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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