The terms retinal migraine and ocular migraine are often confused with visual migraine, which is a far-more-common symptom of vision loss, resulting from the aura phase of the common migraine. The aura phase of migraine can occur with or without a headache.
Wiktionary(0.00 / 0 votes)Rate this definition: 1  mentalism(Noun) The doctrine that physical reality exists only because of the mind's awareness. 2  mentalism(Noun) Activities such as mind reading, especially when used by performers.
Functionalism says that mental states are constituted by their causal relations to one another and to sensory inputs and behavioral outputs. Functionalism is one of the major theoretical developments of Twentieth Century analytic philosophy, and provides the conceptual underpinnings of much work in cognitive science.