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Psychological Review Copyright 1987 by the American Psychological Association, Inc. 1987, Vol. 94, No. 4,427-438 0033-29 5X/87/$00.75 Dynamic Mental Representations Jennifer J. Freyd Cornell University This article pursues the possibility that perceivers are sensitive to implicit dynamic information even when they are not able to observe real-time change. Recent empirical results in the domains of handwriting recognition and picture perception are discussed in support of the hypothesis that per- ception involves acquiring information about transitions, whether the stimuli are static or dynamic. It is then argued that dynamic information has a special status in mental representation as well as in perception. In particular 1 propose that some mental representations may be dynamic, in that a temporal dimension is necessary to the representation. Recent evidence that mental representations may exhibit a form of momentum is discussed in support of this claim. There has been a growing appreciation of the impressive abil- evidence of change. There are at least two types of implicit ity that the human mind has for perceiving events that take change: (a) future change, such as spatial transformations an place over time. J. J. Gibson (1979), Johansson (1975), and oth-