Ciaramidaro Angela, Becchio Cristina, Colle Livia, Bara Bruno G, Walter Henrik
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Deutschordenstr. 50, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany, Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Turin, Via Po 14, 10123 Turin, Italy, and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Mind and Brain Research, Charité, University of Berlin, Campus Mitte, Charité Platz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany
Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics and Psychotherapy, Goethe-University, Deutschordenstr. 50, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany, Department of Psychology, Center for Cognitive Science, University of Turin, Via Po 14, 10123 Turin, Italy, and Department of Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Division of Mind and Brain Research, Charité, University of Berlin, Campus Mitte, Charité Platz 1, 10117 Berlin, Germany.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2014 Jul;9(7):909-16. doi: 10.1093/scan/nst062. Epub 2013 Apr 24.
Being able to comprehend communicative intentions and to recognize whether such intentions are directed toward us or not is extremely important in social interaction. Two brain systems, the mentalizing and the mirror neuron system, have been proposed to underlie intention recognition. However, little is still known about how the systems cooperate within the process of communicative intention understanding and to what degree they respond to self-directed and other-directed stimuli. To investigate the role of the mentalizing and the mirror neuron system, we used functional magnetic resonance imaging with four types of action sequence: communicative and private intentions as well as other-directed and self-directed intentions. Categorical and functional connectivity analyses showed that both systems contribute to the encoding of communicative intentions and that both systems are significantly stronger activated and more strongly coupled in self-directed communicative actions.
在社交互动中,能够理解交际意图并识别这些意图是否针对我们极为重要。人们提出了两个大脑系统,即心理理论系统和镜像神经元系统,作为意图识别的基础。然而,对于这些系统在交际意图理解过程中如何协作,以及它们对自我导向和他人导向刺激的反应程度,我们仍然知之甚少。为了研究心理理论系统和镜像神经元系统的作用,我们使用功能磁共振成像技术,对四种动作序列进行了研究:交际意图和私人意图,以及他人导向意图和自我导向意图。分类和功能连接分析表明,这两个系统都有助于交际意图的编码,并且在自我导向的交际行为中,这两个系统的激活程度明显更强,耦合也更紧密。