Departing from the long debates on the role of faith/belief, recent interdisciplinary research has turned to characterize the features of the psychophysical processes underlying believing. Here we review recent cognit...Departing from the long debates on the role of faith/belief, recent interdisciplinary research has turned to characterize the features of the psychophysical processes underlying believing. Here we review recent cognitive neuroscience models of the believing process and propose a conceptual framework that integrates current theoretical and empiric knowledge about the processes of believing. There are theories that elegantly explain believing as a self-organization process of cognitive and emotional elements. Adding to the component of self-organized belief representation, dual-component models assume a belief evaluation component, which is probably supported by the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and explains the stability of the belief despite the changing environment. Borrowing an idea from the neural models for the mental representation of action or situation, inclusion of both perceptive and action informations as the construct of belief representation allows the intimate relationship between a specific belief and a specific range of behaviour. Furthermore, inclusion of the personal value or affective information in the representation explains the deep impact of one’s emotional and physical state on the believing process. For associating perception, action, and value in a representation, the medial frontal cortex (MFC) may play a key role. Recent neuro-cognitive models of self-cognition explain the developmental origin of such a representation and the hierarchically nested structure of three levels of complexity in the representations: basic physical level, interpersonal level, and higher social level. The integrated model provides a comprehensive perspective of the believing process which suggests the importance and future directions of this interdisciplinary approach.展开更多
LIU GUIJIN is a Chinese face familiar to many African TV viewers. The 67-year-old has been involved with the continent for more than 30 years as a Chinese diplomat. He＇s the first Special Representative of the Chines...LIU GUIJIN is a Chinese face familiar to many African TV viewers. The 67-year-old has been involved with the continent for more than 30 years as a Chinese diplomat. He＇s the first Special Representative of the Chinese Government for African Affairs.展开更多
WHEN I grew up in Ghana, the only information children within my age bracket （10-15） had about China was that it is a populous country with rice as the staple food for its people. Therefore those of us who were alwa...WHEN I grew up in Ghana, the only information children within my age bracket （10-15） had about China was that it is a populous country with rice as the staple food for its people. Therefore those of us who were always crying for rice were referred to as ＂Chinese.＂ We were also fascinated by the few Chinese names we heard on air and how some news presenters fumbled to mention names such as Wang, Chen, Sun, Li among others, which we considered as following the pattern of a rhyme.展开更多
文摘Departing from the long debates on the role of faith/belief, recent interdisciplinary research has turned to characterize the features of the psychophysical processes underlying believing. Here we review recent cognitive neuroscience models of the believing process and propose a conceptual framework that integrates current theoretical and empiric knowledge about the processes of believing. There are theories that elegantly explain believing as a self-organization process of cognitive and emotional elements. Adding to the component of self-organized belief representation, dual-component models assume a belief evaluation component, which is probably supported by the right dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) and explains the stability of the belief despite the changing environment. Borrowing an idea from the neural models for the mental representation of action or situation, inclusion of both perceptive and action informations as the construct of belief representation allows the intimate relationship between a specific belief and a specific range of behaviour. Furthermore, inclusion of the personal value or affective information in the representation explains the deep impact of one’s emotional and physical state on the believing process. For associating perception, action, and value in a representation, the medial frontal cortex (MFC) may play a key role. Recent neuro-cognitive models of self-cognition explain the developmental origin of such a representation and the hierarchically nested structure of three levels of complexity in the representations: basic physical level, interpersonal level, and higher social level. The integrated model provides a comprehensive perspective of the believing process which suggests the importance and future directions of this interdisciplinary approach.
文摘LIU GUIJIN is a Chinese face familiar to many African TV viewers. The 67-year-old has been involved with the continent for more than 30 years as a Chinese diplomat. He＇s the first Special Representative of the Chinese Government for African Affairs.
文摘WHEN I grew up in Ghana, the only information children within my age bracket （10-15） had about China was that it is a populous country with rice as the staple food for its people. Therefore those of us who were always crying for rice were referred to as ＂Chinese.＂ We were also fascinated by the few Chinese names we heard on air and how some news presenters fumbled to mention names such as Wang, Chen, Sun, Li among others, which we considered as following the pattern of a rhyme.
