Marrero Hipólito, Gámez Elena, Urrutia Mabel, Beltrán David, Diaz Jose M, Yagual Sara N
Departamento de Psicología Cognitiva, Social y Organizacional, Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain.
Instituto de Neurociencias de la Universidad de La Laguna, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, Spain.
Front Behav Neurosci. 2019 Aug 6;13:179. doi: 10.3389/fnbeh.2019.00179. eCollection 2019.
Human brains encode approach in social relationships as cognitively relevant for adaptive behavior. In this study, using event-related potentials (ERPs), we found that reading approach-social actions are likely to cause activation around the right anterior/middle superior temporal sulcus (STS), a brain area particularly involved in processing action intentionality and social relationships. We consider that the human capacity for the mental rotation of figures could also be adaptive for social relationships at the service of planning interaction with other bodies in social encounters. Encoding of social approach and spatial ability would correlate if both capacities are aimed at achieving the adaptive goal of secure interactions with others. We found a strong correlation between brain activation in the right temporal brain region and spatial ability. Implications of these results for the psychological mechanisms involved in adaptive social behavior are discussed.
人类大脑将社交关系中的趋近编码为与适应性行为在认知上相关的内容。在本研究中，我们使用事件相关电位（ERP）发现，阅读趋近性社交行为可能会导致右侧前/中颞上沟（STS）周围的激活，该脑区特别参与处理动作意图和社交关系。我们认为，人类对图形进行心理旋转的能力也可能适用于社交关系，以服务于在社交场合中与其他个体规划互动。如果这两种能力都旨在实现与他人进行安全互动的适应性目标，那么社交趋近编码和空间能力之间就会存在关联。我们发现右侧颞脑区域的大脑激活与空间能力之间存在很强的相关性。本文讨论了这些结果对适应性社交行为所涉及的心理机制的影响。
