Department of Neurology, Berenson-Allen Center for Noninvasive Brain Stimulation, and Division of Cognitive Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center and Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215.
Department of Educational Psychology and Waisman Center, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, WI 53705.
Behav Brain Sci. 2014 Apr;37(2):212-3. doi: 10.1017/S0140525X13002422.
Cook et al. argue that mirror neurons originate from associative learning processes, without evolutionary influence from social-cognitive mechanisms. We disagree with this claim and present arguments based upon cross-species comparisons, EEG findings, and developmental neuroscience that the evolution of mirror neurons is most likely driven simultaneously and interactively by evolutionarily adaptive psychological mechanisms and lower-level biological mechanisms that support them.
库克等人认为，镜像神经元源自联想学习过程，而不受社会认知机制的进化影响。我们不同意这一说法，并提出了基于跨物种比较、脑电图发现和发展神经科学的论据，即镜像神经元的进化最有可能同时受到进化适应性心理机制和支持它们的较低层次生物机制的驱动和相互作用。
