Yes - a mental map is a map in your head - stored in your memory.

是的，mental map是指你头脑中的地图，保存在你的记忆中。

Our mental map of how much contentment is possible defies all the known facts.

我们想像中充满满足感的社会，可能已违背了所有的现实。

So they will go out in ever-increasing circles, they'll literally construct a mental map in their heads.

因此它们会以圆圈的形式不断扩大活动范围，然后在头脑中构建一张虚拟地图。

Researchers have shown that we tend to make mental maps when we learn something.

研究人员表明，当我们学习某些东西时，我们倾向于绘制思维导图。

Being able to " place" a fact somewhere on a mental map of the page helps us remember it.

能够将事实“放置”在页面心理地图上的某个位置可以帮助我们记住它。

At night, navigators used something called a star compass, which wasn't a physical object, but rather a sort of mental map.

晚上，航海家使用一种叫做星罗盘的东西，它不是实物， 而是一种心理地图。

Elephant matriarchs guide the herd, following an incredible mental map of all the water holes to be found in an area of tens of thousands of square kilometers.

母象族长带领着象群，循着方圆几百几千公里内，由诸多水坑标记的奇妙记忆地图向湖边进发。

We use stereo vision, parallax motion, intuitive physics, and feedback from all our sensory systems to create a mental map of the environment.

我们使用立体视觉、视差运动、直觉物理学和来自我们所有感官系统的反馈来创建环境的心理地图。

Instead of voyeurism and fetishistic fixation, there is spatial disorientation; instead of the logic of the 'scene', it is semantic clusters, mental maps, spatial metaphors that organize comprehension and narrative transformation.

它用空间上的迷惑替代了偷窥欲和拜物欲的迷恋，用语义簇、心理图和空间隐喻代替了场景的逻辑性，组织了对理解和叙事的转换。

Which is: first they walk around their area in a small circle, then a bigger one and then a bigger one - until they have a strong mental map of the place.

首先，他们会在一个小圆圈里活动，然后圆圈不断扩大，直到他们在头脑中勾画出这个地方的地图。

The same scientists who conducted this study have also examined babies kicks in the womb and they theorize that those could help a child create a, sort of, mental map of his or her own body.

进行这项研究的同一位科学家还试验了婴儿脚踢子宫的行为，他们认为这些可以帮助孩子创造自身的心智图。