ABSTRACT
This chapter explains a number of unique perspectives on how transference involves complex forms of bridging within the mind–brain. It describes the thought processes that give rise to transference and the neural substrates and mechanisms that support these processes. Transferences offer unique opportunities for expanding the meaning and depth of experience. B. Priel and G. Schreiber have approached transference from the perspective of chaos theory. Priel and Schreiber's nonlinear dynamical study of transference opens the door to analyzing the associative structure of transference and related memory phenomena in standard terms that cross disciplinary boundaries. The psychoanalytic topic of transference significantly overlaps the topics of similarity judgment and memory priming in the domains of cognitive psychology and neurophysiology. A further cognitive aspect of transference concerns the perspective of neurocomputing, the mathematical simulation of thinking and behavior.
