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entity go
that which is perceived or known or inferred to have its own distinct existence (living or nonliving)

abstraction, abstract entity go
a general concept formed by extracting common features from specific examples

psychological feature go
a feature of the mental life of a living organism

cognition, knowledge, noesis go
the psychological result of perception and learning and reasoning

content, cognitive content, mental object go
the sum or range of what has been perceived, discovered, or learned

representation, mental representation, internal representation go
a presentation to the mind in the form of an idea or image

memory
something that is remembered

noun.cognition

5 Subcategories

reminiscence go
a mental impression retained and recalled from the past
recollection go
something recalled to the mind
engram, memory trace go
a postulated biochemical change (presumably in neural tissue) that represents a memory
confabulation go
(psychiatry) a plausible but imagined memory that fills in gaps in what is remembered
screen memory go
an imagined memory of a childhood experience