Cognitive Neuroscience Section, National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA.
Annu Rev Neurosci. 2010;33:299-324. doi: 10.1146/annurev-neuro-060909-153230.
Results from functional magnetic resonance imaging and lesion studies indicate that the prefrontal cortex (PFC) is essential for successful navigation through a complex social world inundated with intricate norms and moral values. This review examines regions of the PFC that are critical for implicit and explicit social cognitive and moral judgment processing. Considerable overlap between regions active when individuals engage in social cognition or assess moral appropriateness of behaviors is evident, underscoring the similarity between social cognitive and moral judgment processes in general. Findings are interpreted within the framework of structured event complex theory, providing a broad organizing perspective for how activity in PFC neural networks facilitates social cognition and moral judgment. We emphasize the dynamic flexibility in neural circuits involved in both implicit and explicit processing and discuss the likelihood that neural regions thought to uniquely underlie both processes heavily interact in response to different contextual primes.
功能磁共振成像和病变研究的结果表明，前额叶皮层（PFC）对于成功穿越充满复杂规范和道德价值观的复杂社会世界至关重要。本综述考察了 PFC 中对于内隐和外显社会认知和道德判断处理至关重要的区域。当个体参与社会认知或评估行为的道德适当性时，活跃的区域之间存在相当大的重叠，这突出了一般而言社会认知和道德判断过程之间的相似性。研究结果在结构化事件复杂理论的框架内进行了解释，为 PFC 神经网络活动如何促进社会认知和道德判断提供了广泛的组织视角。我们强调了内隐和外显处理中涉及的神经回路的动态灵活性，并讨论了认为独特地支持这两个过程的神经区域在响应不同的上下文提示时可能会强烈相互作用的可能性。
