Division of Behavioral and Social Research, National Institute on Aging/National Institutes of Health, 7201 Wisconsin Ave., Suite 533, Bethesda, MD 20892, USA.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2011 Apr;6(2):149-64. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsr019.
This article introduces the special issue of 'Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience' on Aging Research, and offers a broad conceptual and methodological framework for considering advances in life course research in social neuroscience and neuroeconomics. The authors highlight key areas of inquiry where aging research is raising new insights about how to conceptualize and examine critical questions about the links between cognition, emotion and motivation in social and economic behavior, as well as challenges that need to be addressed when taking a life course perspective in these fields. They also point to several emerging approaches that hold the potential for addressing these challenges, through bridging approaches from laboratory and population-based science, bridging inquiry across life stages and expanding measurement of core psychological phenotypes.
本文介绍了《社会认知与情感神经科学》杂志关于衰老研究的特刊，为在社会神经科学和神经经济学领域考虑生命历程研究的进展提供了广泛的概念和方法框架。作者强调了关键的研究领域，衰老研究为如何概念化和检验社会和经济行为中认知、情感和动机之间的联系提出了新的见解，以及在这些领域从生命历程的角度出发时需要解决的挑战。他们还指出了几种新兴的方法，这些方法有可能通过从实验室和基于人群的科学中架起桥梁、在不同生命阶段进行调查以及扩大核心心理表型的测量来应对这些挑战。
