Pollak Seth D
University of Wisconsin at Madison.
Curr Dir Psychol Sci. 2008 Dec;17(6):370-375. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8721.2008.00608.x.
Emotions are complex processes that are essential for survival and adaptation. Recent studies of children and animals are shedding light on how the developing brain learns to rapidly respond to signals in the environment, assess the emotional significance of this information, and in so doing adaptively regulate subsequent behavior. Here, I describe studies of children and nonhuman primates who are developing within emotionally aberrant environments. Examining these populations provides new insights on the ways in which social or interpersonal contexts influence development of the neural systems underlying emotional behavior.
情绪是对生存和适应至关重要的复杂过程。最近对儿童和动物的研究正在揭示发育中的大脑如何学会快速响应环境中的信号，评估这些信息的情感意义，并据此适应性地调节后续行为。在这里，我描述了在情绪异常环境中成长的儿童和非人类灵长类动物的研究。对这些群体的研究为社会或人际环境影响情绪行为背后神经系统发育的方式提供了新的见解。
