Representation is a term used in cognitive psychology, neuroscience, and cognitive science to refer to a hypothetical internal cognitive symbol that represents external reality. David Marr defines representation as "a formal system for making explicit certain entities or types of information, together with a specification of how the system does this."¹ Representationalism (also known as indirect realism) is the view that representations are the main way we access external reality.

See also

• Indirect realism
• Knowledge representation
• Representationalism
• Perception

References

Further reading

• Henrich, J. & Boyd, R. (2002). Culture and cognition: Why cultural evolution does not require replication of representations. Culture and Cognition, 2, 87–112. Full text

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