Modelling neurotic psychopathology: Memory, attention and symbolization

Abstract

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. © 2010 Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg.