metarepresenting

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.
   • 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...2015 October 31, “Procedural Metacognition and False Belief Understanding in 3- to 5-Year-Old Children”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI