Reconsolidation: Turning consciousness into memory. (8th June 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Solms, Mark
• Is Part Of: Behavioral and brain sciences. Volume 38(2015)
• Publication Date: 2015-06-08
• Subjects: Psychophysiology -- Periodicals; Psychology -- Periodicals; Human behavior -- Periodicals; Animal behavior -- Periodicals; Brain -- Periodicals; 616.89142
• DOI: 10.1017/S0140525X14000296
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0140-525X

Abstract

Abstract: The purpose of learning is not to maintain records but to generate predictions. Successful predictions remain implicit; only prediction errors ("surprises") attract consciousness. This is what Freud had in mind when he declared that "consciousness arises instead of a memory-trace." The aim of reconsolidation, and of psychotherapy, is to improve predictions about how to meet our needs in the world.