Department of Psychology, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA 19087, United States.
Dev Cogn Neurosci. 2011 Apr;1(2):110-23. doi: 10.1016/j.dcn.2010.09.001.
How do human children come to understand the actions of other people? What neural systems are associated with the processing of others' actions and how do these systems develop, starting in infancy? These questions span cognitive psychology and developmental cognitive neuroscience, and addressing them has important implications for the study of social cognition. A large amount of research has used behavioral measures to investigate infants' imitation of the actions of other people; a related but smaller literature has begun to use neurobiological measures to study of infants' action representation. Here we focus on experiments employing electroencephalographic (EEG) techniques for assessing mu rhythm desynchronization in infancy, and analyze how this work illuminates the links between action perception and production prior to the onset of language.
人类儿童是如何理解他人行为的？与处理他人行为相关的神经系统是什么，以及这些系统从婴儿期开始是如何发展的？这些问题跨越了认知心理学和发展认知神经科学，对社会认知的研究具有重要意义。大量的研究使用行为测量方法来研究婴儿对他人行为的模仿；相关但规模较小的文献开始使用神经生物学测量方法来研究婴儿的动作表现。在这里，我们重点介绍使用脑电图 (EEG) 技术评估婴儿期 mu 节律去同步化的实验，并分析这项工作如何在语言出现之前阐明动作感知和产生之间的联系。
