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Modelling Neurotic Psychopathology: Memory, Attention and Symbolization

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Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010 (ICANN 2010)

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In earlier work, we have proposed a neural network model that describes some mental processes involved in neuroses, by an associative memory mechanism, where modules corresponding to sensorial and symbolic memories interact, representing unconscious and conscious mental activity. Here, we relate our neuroses model with two models which have been proposed for modelling cognitive functions underlying consciousness: the CODAM model and the Dehaene-Kerszberg-Changeux Global Workspace model, to support that memory and attentional mechanisms are essential for consciousness.

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  1. Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rua São Francisco Xavier, 524, 20550-900, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Roseli S. Wedemann

  2. Eng. Sistemas e Computação, COPPE - Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68511, 21945-970, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Luís Alfredo V. de Carvalho

  3. Instituto de Física, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Caixa Postal 68528, 21941-972, Rio de Janeiro, RJ, Brazil

    Raul Donangelo

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  1. Department of Informatics, TEI of Thessaloniki, 57400, Sindos, Greece

    Konstantinos Diamantaras

  2. Department of Informatics, Nicolaus Copernicus University, School of Physics, Astronomy, and Informatics, ul. Grudziadzka 5, 87-100, Torun, Poland

    Wlodek Duch

  3. Department of Forestry and Management of the Environment and Natural Resources, Democritus University of Thrace, Pantazidou 193, 68200, Orestiada Thrace, Greece

    Lazaros S. Iliadis

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Wedemann, R.S., de Carvalho, L.A.V., Donangelo, R. (2010). Modelling Neurotic Psychopathology: Memory, Attention and Symbolization. In: Diamantaras, K., Duch, W., Iliadis, L.S. (eds) Artificial Neural Networks – ICANN 2010. ICANN 2010. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 6354. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15825-4_71

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