Olsson Andreas, Ochsner Kevin N
Department of Psychology, Columbia University, 1190 Amsterdam Avenue, New York, NY 10027, USA.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2008 Feb;12(2):65-71. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2007.11.010.
Although recent research has shown that social cognition and emotion engage overlapping regions of the brain, few accounts of this overlap have been offered. What systems might be commonly or distinctively involved in each? The close functional relationship between social cognition and emotion might be understood in terms of a central role for mental state attribution in the understanding, learning and regulation of emotion. In each of these cases, mental state attributions might be supported by either stimulus-driven or more reflective processes.
尽管最近的研究表明，社会认知和情感涉及大脑的重叠区域，但对这种重叠的描述却很少。在这两者中，哪些系统可能共同参与或分别参与？社会认知与情感之间紧密的功能关系，或许可以从心理状态归因在情感理解、学习及调节中所起的核心作用来理解。在上述每种情况下，心理状态归因可能由刺激驱动或更具反思性的过程所支持。
