Chen Wei, Yuan Ti-Fei
Department of Psychology; Institute of Cognition and Behavioral Neuroscience, Hangzhou Normal University, Hangzhou, China.
Neurosci Bull. 2008 Aug;24(4):259-64. doi: 10.1007/s12264-008-1231-y.
Mirror neuron system (MNS) represents one of the most important discoveries of cognitive neuroscience in the past decade, and it has been found to involve in multiple aspects of brain functions including action understanding, imitation, language understanding, empathy, action prediction and speech evolution. This manuscript reviewed the function of MNS in action understanding as well as language evolution, and specifically assessed its roles as the bridge from body language to fluent speeches. Then we discussed the speech defects of autism patients due to the disruption of MNS. Finally, given that MNS is plastic in adult brain, we proposed MNS targeted therapy provides an efficient rehabilitation approach for brain damages conditions as well as autism patients.
镜像神经元系统(MNS)是过去十年认知神经科学最重要的发现之一,已被发现涉及大脑功能的多个方面,包括动作理解、模仿、语言理解、共情、动作预测和言语进化。本文综述了MNS在动作理解以及语言进化方面的功能,并特别评估了其作为从肢体语言到流利言语桥梁的作用。然后我们讨论了由于MNS中断导致的自闭症患者的言语缺陷。最后,鉴于MNS在成人大脑中具有可塑性,我们提出针对MNS的治疗为脑损伤情况以及自闭症患者提供了一种有效的康复方法。