Journal of Neurodevelopmental Cognition
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Memory of Former Beliefs May Affect the Single Belief Formation Process

10.52547/jncog.2023.103461
Volume 4, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
December 2023
Pages 34-36
Journal of Neurodevelopmental Cognition

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Aliakbar Kouchakzadeh 1
Alireza Alikhani 1
Shahriar Gharibzadeh 2

1 Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran

2 Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran; Basir Eye Health Research Center, Tehran, Iran

Abstract
Belief is an attitude toward a proposition. Current studies suggest that single-belief formation is an active process. The key step in the belief formation process is information-seeking. Multiple sites of the brain play an important role in motivating individuals to seek information such as cortico-basal ganglia neural networks, neural systems for reward prediction errors, and the orbitofrontal cortex. Based on previous studies, the information is processed by single neurons in higher areas of the brain. It can be assumed that some features of belief are encoded as information in memory. We hypothesize there can be a relationship between former beliefs and the formation of new beliefs.

Keywords

Cognition
Representational theory of mind
Memory
Motivation
Information-seeking
  • Receive Date 09 April 2023
  • Revise Date 03 May 2023
  • Accept Date 05 May 2023

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