Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Trends Neurosci. 2009 Dec;32(12):603-10. doi: 10.1016/j.tins.2009.09.001. Epub 2009 Sep 24.
Recent progress in cognitive neuroscience highlights the involvement of the prefrontal cortex (PFC) in social cognition. Accumulating evidence demonstrates that representations within the lateral PFC enable people to coordinate their thoughts and actions with their intentions to support goal-directed social behavior. Despite the importance of this region in guiding social interactions, remarkably little is known about the functional organization and forms of social inference processed by the lateral PFC. Here, we introduce a cognitive neuroscience framework for understanding the inferential architecture of the lateral PFC, drawing upon recent theoretical developments in evolutionary psychology and emerging neuroscience evidence about how this region can orchestrate behavior on the basis of evolutionarily adaptive social norms for obligatory, prohibited and permissible courses of action.
认知神经科学的最新进展强调了前额叶皮层（PFC）在社会认知中的参与。越来越多的证据表明，外侧 PFC 内的代表能够使人们协调自己的思想和行动与他们的意图，以支持目标导向的社会行为。尽管该区域在指导社交互动方面非常重要，但对于外侧 PFC 处理的功能组织和社交推理形式却知之甚少。在这里，我们引入了一个认知神经科学框架来理解外侧 PFC 的推理结构，借鉴了进化心理学的最新理论发展和新兴神经科学证据，说明该区域如何根据强制性、禁止性和允许性行为的进化适应性社会规范来协调行为。
