All Souls College and Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK.
Neuroimage. 2010 Jun;51(2):789-91. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2010.02.034. Epub 2010 Feb 16.
Mirror neurons have been hailed as the key to understanding social cognition. I argue that three currents of thought-relating to evolution, atomism and telepathy-have magnified the perceived importance of mirror neurons. When they are understood to be a product of associative learning, rather than an adaptation for social cognition, mirror neurons are no longer mesmerising, but they continue to raise important questions about both the psychology of science and the neural bases of social cognition.
镜像神经元被誉为理解社会认知的关键。我认为，与进化、原子论和心灵感应有关的三个思想流派夸大了镜像神经元被认为的重要性。当人们了解到它们是联想学习的产物，而不是用于社会认知的适应时，镜像神经元就不再那么令人着迷了，但它们仍然提出了关于科学心理学和社会认知神经基础的重要问题。
