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Belief formation - A driving force for brain evolution.
Brain and Cognition ( IF 2.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-02-12 , DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2020.105548
Rüdiger J Seitz 1 , Hans-Ferdinand Angel 2
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The topic of belief has been neglected in the natural sciences for a long period of time. Recent neuroscience research in non-human primates and humans, however, has shown that beliefs are the neuropsychic product of fundamental brain processes that attribute affective meaning to concrete objects and events, enabling individual goal setting, decision making and maneuvering in the environment. With regard to the involved neural processes they can be categorized as empirical, relational, and conceptual beliefs. Empirical beliefs are about objects and relational beliefs are about events as in tool use and in interactions between subjects that develop below the level of awareness and are up-dated dynamically. Conceptual beliefs are more complex being based on narratives and participation in ritual acts. As neural processes are known to require computational space in the brain, the formation of inceasingly complex beliefs demands extra neural resources. Here, we argue that the evolution of human beliefs is related to the phylogenetic enlargement of the brain including the parietal and medial frontal cortex in humans.

中文翻译:

信念形成-大脑进化的驱动力。

长期以来,信仰的话题在自然科学中一直被忽略。但是,最近在非人类灵长类动物和人类中进行的神经科学研究表明,信念是基本脑部过程的神经心理产物,这些过程将情感含义赋予具体对象和事件,从而可以在环境中进行个人目标设定,决策和操纵。关于所涉及的神经过程,可以将它们分为经验,关系和概念信念。经验信念是关于对象的,关系信念是关于工具使用中的事件以及在意识水平以下发展并动态更新的对象之间的交互的事件。基于叙事和参与礼仪行为的概念性信念更为复杂。由于已知神经过程需要大脑中的计算空间,因此日益复杂的信念的形成需要额外的神经资源。在这里,我们认为人类信仰的演变与大脑的系统发育扩展有关,包括人类的顶叶和内侧额叶皮层。
更新日期:2020-02-12
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