TY - JFULL AU - Peter Pfeifer and Julian Pfeifer and Niko Pfeifer PY - 2023/5/ TI - Drive-Related Behaviors as Elements of Thinking T2 - International Journal of Cognitive and Language Sciences SP - 230 EP - 238 VL - 17 SN - 1307-6892 UR - https://publications.waset.org/pdf/10013051 PU - World Academy of Science, Engineering and Technology NX - Open Science Index 196, 2023 N2 - Information processing is at the focus of brain and cognition research. This work has a different perspective, it starts with behaviors. The detailed analysis of behaviors leads to the discovery that a significant proportion of them are based on only five basic drives. These basic drives are combinable, and the combinations result in the diversity of human behavior and thinking. The key elements are drive memories. They collect memories of drive-related situations and feelings. They contain variations of basic drives in numerous areas of life and build combinations with different meanings depending on the area. Human thinking could be explained with variations on these nested combinations of basic drives. ER -