Martin Alex
Laboratory of Brain and Cognition, National Institute of Mental Health, Building 10, Room 4C-104, 10 Center Drive MSC 1366, Bethesda, MD, 20892-1366, USA.
Psychon Bull Rev. 2016 Aug;23(4):979-90. doi: 10.3758/s13423-015-0842-3.
In this article, I discuss some of the latest functional neuroimaging findings on the organization of object concepts in the human brain. I argue that these data provide strong support for viewing concepts as the products of highly interactive neural circuits grounded in the action, perception, and emotion systems. The nodes of these circuits are defined by regions representing specific object properties (e.g., form, color, and motion) and thus are property-specific, rather than strictly modality-specific. How these circuits are modified by external and internal environmental demands, the distinction between representational content and format, and the grounding of abstract social concepts are also discussed.
在本文中，我探讨了一些关于人类大脑中物体概念组织的最新功能神经影像学研究结果。我认为，这些数据为将概念视为基于动作、感知和情感系统的高度交互神经回路的产物提供了有力支持。这些回路的节点由代表特定物体属性（如形状、颜色和运动）的区域定义，因此是特定属性的，而非严格特定模态的。本文还讨论了这些回路如何受到外部和内部环境需求的影响、表征内容与形式之间的区别，以及抽象社会概念的基础。
