Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions
Believing has recently been recognized as a fundamental brain function linking a person’s experience with his or her attitude, actions and predictions. In general, believing results from the integration of ambient information with emotions and can be reinforced or modulated in a probabilistic fashio...
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| author | Rüdiger J. Seitz Hans-Ferdinand Angel Raymond F. Paloutzian |
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| description | Believing has recently been recognized as a fundamental brain function linking a person’s experience with his or her attitude, actions and predictions. In general, believing results from the integration of ambient information with emotions and can be reinforced or modulated in a probabilistic fashion by new experiences. Although these processes occur in the subliminal realm, humans can become aware of what they believe and express it verbally. We explain how believing is interwoven with memory functions in a multifaceted fashion. Linking the typically rapid and adequate reactions of a subject to what he/she believes is enabled by working memory. Perceptions are stored in episodic memory as beneficial or aversive events, while the corresponding verbal descriptions of what somebody believes are stored in semantic memory. After recall from memory of what someone believes, personally relevant information can be communicated to other people. Thus, memory is essential for maintaining what people believe. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-656a9b9654224073898dfa3c0f14e1282023-04-25T09:42:55ZengPsychOpen GOLD/ Leibniz Institute for PsychologyEurope's Journal of Psychology1841-04132023-02-0119111312410.5964/ejop.7461ejop.7461Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory FunctionsRüdiger J. Seitz0Hans-Ferdinand Angel1Raymond F. Paloutzian2Medical Faculty, Heinrich-Heine-University Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GermanyKarl Franzens University Graz, Graz, AustriaWestmont College, Santa Barbara, CA, USABelieving has recently been recognized as a fundamental brain function linking a person’s experience with his or her attitude, actions and predictions. In general, believing results from the integration of ambient information with emotions and can be reinforced or modulated in a probabilistic fashion by new experiences. Although these processes occur in the subliminal realm, humans can become aware of what they believe and express it verbally. We explain how believing is interwoven with memory functions in a multifaceted fashion. Linking the typically rapid and adequate reactions of a subject to what he/she believes is enabled by working memory. Perceptions are stored in episodic memory as beneficial or aversive events, while the corresponding verbal descriptions of what somebody believes are stored in semantic memory. After recall from memory of what someone believes, personally relevant information can be communicated to other people. Thus, memory is essential for maintaining what people believe.https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/7461believingbrainmeaningneural processesmemorycreditionbeliefs |
| spellingShingle | Rüdiger J. Seitz Hans-Ferdinand Angel Raymond F. Paloutzian Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions Europe's Journal of Psychology believing brain meaning neural processes memory credition beliefs |
| title | Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions |
| title_full | Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions |
| title_fullStr | Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions |
| title_full_unstemmed | Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions |
| title_short | Bridging the Gap Between Believing and Memory Functions |
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| topic | believing brain meaning neural processes memory credition beliefs |
| url | https://ejop.psychopen.eu/index.php/ejop/article/view/7461 |
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