Schurz Matthias, Perner Josef
Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Salzburg Salzburg, Austria.
Front Psychol. 2015 Oct 31;6:1610. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01610. eCollection 2015.
We review nine current neurocognitive theories of how theory of mind (ToM) is implemented in the brain and evaluate them based on the results from a recent meta-analysis by Schurz et al. (2014), where we identified six types of tasks that are the most frequently used in imaging research on ToM. From theories about cognitive processes being associated with certain brain areas, we deduce predictions about which areas should be engaged by the different types of ToM tasks. We then compare these predictions with the observed activations in the meta-analysis, and identify a number of unexplained findings in current theories. These can be used to revise and improve future neurocognitive accounts of ToM.
我们回顾了当前关于心理理论（ToM）在大脑中如何实现的九种神经认知理论，并根据舒尔茨等人（2014年）最近的一项荟萃分析结果对它们进行评估，在该分析中我们确定了六种类型的任务，这些任务是ToM成像研究中最常用的。从关于认知过程与某些脑区相关的理论中，我们推断出关于不同类型的ToM任务应该激活哪些脑区的预测。然后，我们将这些预测与荟萃分析中观察到的激活情况进行比较，并确定当前理论中一些无法解释的发现。这些发现可用于修订和完善未来关于ToM的神经认知解释。
