Department of Psychiatry, University Hospital Cologne Cologne, Germany.
Front Hum Neurosci. 2014 May 6;8:278. doi: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00278. eCollection 2014.
Social neuroscience studies the neurobiological underpinnings of people making sense of people. Due to both conceptual and methodological constraints, the majority of studies in this field of research, however, has employed experimental paradigms that focus on social cognition from an observer's rather than from an interactor's point of view (offline vs. online social cognition). This calls for an increased effort to systematically investigate the neural bases of participation in real-time social interaction. In light of the ontogenetic primacy of social interaction over observation and the idea that neural networks established during social interaction may be "re-used" during observation, other important objectives of the field will be to relate new findings into the neural bases of social interaction to previous work investigating the neural bases of social observation as well as to find ways to directly compare the two.
社会神经科学研究的是人们理解他人的神经生物学基础。由于概念和方法上的限制，然而，该研究领域的大多数研究都采用了实验范式，这些范式侧重于从观察者的角度而不是从互动者的角度来研究社会认知（离线与在线社会认知）。这就需要加大努力，系统地研究参与实时社会互动的神经基础。鉴于社会互动在观察中的优先地位，以及在社会互动中建立的神经网络在观察过程中可能被“重新利用”的观点，该领域的其他重要目标将是把社会互动神经基础的新发现与之前研究社会观察神经基础的工作联系起来，并找到直接比较这两者的方法。
