a Department of Psychology , Northeastern University , Boston , MA , USA.
b Massachusetts General Hospital, Department of Psychiatry/Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging , Charlestown , MA , USA.
Cogn Emot. 2019 Feb;33(1):67-76. doi: 10.1080/02699931.2018.1535428. Epub 2018 Oct 18.
Theories of emotion have often maintained artificial boundaries: for instance, that cognition and emotion are separable, and that an emotion concept is separable from the emotional events that comprise its category (e.g. "fear" is distinct from instances of fear). Over the past several years, research has dissolved these artificial boundaries, suggesting instead that conceptual construction is a domain-general process-a process by which the brain makes meaning of the world. The brain constructs emotion concepts, but also cognitions and perceptions, all in the service of guiding action. In this view, concepts are multimodal constructions, dynamically prepared from a set of highly variable instances. This approach obviates old questions (e.g. how does cognition regulate emotion?) but generates new ones (e.g. how does a brain learn emotion concepts?). In this paper, we review this constructionist, predictive coding account of emotion, considering its implications for health and well-being, culture and development.
例如，认知和情绪是可分离的，情绪概念与构成其范畴的情绪事件是可分离的（例如，“恐惧”与恐惧的实例不同）。在过去的几年中，研究已经打破了这些人为的界限，反而表明概念构建是一种普遍的领域特定过程——大脑理解世界的过程。大脑构建情绪概念，但也构建认知和感知，所有这些都是为了指导行动。在这种观点中，概念是多模态的构建，从一组高度可变的实例中动态地准备。这种方法消除了旧的问题（例如，认知如何调节情绪？），但也产生了新的问题（例如，大脑如何学习情绪概念？）。在本文中，我们回顾了情绪的这种建构主义、预测编码解释，考虑了它对健康和幸福、文化和发展的影响。
