Department of Neuroscience, University of Parma, Parma, Italy.
Trends Cogn Sci. 2011 Nov;15(11):512-9. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2011.09.003. Epub 2011 Oct 7.
Simulation theories of social cognition abound in the literature, but it is often unclear what simulation means and how it works. The discovery of mirror neurons, responding both to action execution and observation, suggested an embodied approach to mental simulation. Over the past few years this approach has been hotly debated and alternative accounts have been proposed. We discuss these accounts and argue that they fail to capture the uniqueness of embodied simulation (ES). ES theory provides a unitary account of basic social cognition, demonstrating that people reuse their own mental states or processes represented with a bodily format in functionally attributing them to others.
社会认知的模拟理论在文献中比比皆是，但模拟的含义和工作方式往往不清楚。镜像神经元的发现，对动作执行和观察都有反应，这表明了一种对心理模拟的具身方法。在过去的几年中，这种方法一直备受争议，并且提出了替代方案。我们讨论了这些方案，并认为它们未能捕捉到具身模拟 (ES) 的独特性。ES 理论为基本社会认知提供了一个统一的解释，表明人们在功能上将自己的心理状态或过程以身体格式重新用于将其归因于他人时，会重复使用这些状态或过程。
