mental image

People who are unable to create mental images, or only very weak ones, are referred to as aphantasics.

When Haley suggested Trump was on his knees, that was a mental image the Trumpers won’t want to acknowledge, for a variety of reasons.

“Based on the information I have about stars, I am creating a mental image of them in my computer brain.”

"Our brain has this remarkable ability to make associations between specific thoughts or mental images and physical sensations," she says.

It has nothing to do with a person forgetting the contents of a mental image, and it also is found in people with vivid imaginations.