1. A plan, outline, or arrangement. SYN: scheme. 2. In sensorimotor theory, the organized unit of cognitive experience. [G. s., shape, form]
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1) a nonconscious adjustment of the brain to the afferent impulses indicative of bodily posture that is a prerequisite of appropriate bodily movement and of spatial perception
2) the organization of experience in the mind or brain that includes a particular organized way of perceiving cognitively and responding to a complex situation or set of stimuli
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sche·ma (skeґmə) [Gr. schēma form, shape] a plan, outline, or arrangement.Medical dictionary. 2011.