Gilbert Daniel T, Wilson Timothy D
Department of Psychology, 33 Kirkland Street, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.
Science. 2007 Sep 7;317(5843):1351-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1144161.
All animals can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've experienced before. But humans can predict the hedonic consequences of events they've never experienced by simulating those events in their minds. Scientists are beginning to understand how the brain simulates future events, how it uses those simulations to predict an event's hedonic consequences, and why these predictions so often go awry.
所有动物都能预测它们之前经历过的事件的享乐后果。但人类可以通过在脑海中模拟那些从未经历过的事件来预测其享乐后果。科学家们开始了解大脑如何模拟未来事件，如何利用这些模拟来预测事件的享乐后果，以及为什么这些预测常常出错。
