ABSTRACT
This chapter initiates by reviewing the interdependence of cortical areas from subcortical regions in the construction of conceptual knowledge, revealing how their atypical association can be a determining factor in the emergence of developmental disabilities, mental disorders, and illnesses. Thus, it is accentuated the role that non-conscious perceptions, affective commotions, and emotional procedures, derived from conditioned learning, have on perceptual judgement, that, when operating also away from consciousness and logical assessment, may promote attentional biases, distortions of meaning, and influence both the absorption (for storage) and the prediction of the data to be mentally represented. There is an in-depth presentation of PMA, as the subcortical circuitry with extensions to the limbic system that regulates the subsymbolic, somatic, sensory-perceptual, and motoric operations, forming the affective core of an experience. PMA is explained as creating internal working models of the attachment relationship mainly non-verbally, focusing on acts, hence, procedurally and implicitly learning, and expressing it through enactments and actualisations, that may be triggered by the intuitive approximation to reality that PMA engenders, while connecting individuals through a resonance experienced in their field of relatedness, based on an a-rational insight felt into the complementarity performed in their shared psychosomatic, affective states.
