Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS, Wales, UK.
Wales Institute for Cognitive Neuroscience, School of Psychology, Bangor University, Gwynedd, LL57 2AS, Wales, UK; Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia.
Neurosci Biobehav Rev. 2020 May;112:28-38. doi: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.01.030. Epub 2020 Jan 23.
Research in social neuroscience has primarily focused on carving up cognition into distinct pieces, as a function of mental process, neural network or social behaviour, while the need for unifying models that span multiple social phenomena has been relatively neglected. Here we present a novel framework that treats social cognition as a case of semantic cognition, and which is neurobiologically constrained and generalizable, with clear, testable predictions regarding sociocognitive processing in the context of both health and disease. According to this framework, social cognition relies on two principal systems of representation and control. These systems are neuroanatomically and functionally distinct, but interact to (1) enable development of foundational, conceptual-level knowledge and (2) regulate access to this information in order to generate flexible and context-appropriate social behaviour. The Social Semantics framework shines new light on the mechanisms of social information processing by maintaining as much explanatory power as prior models of social cognition, whilst remaining simpler, by virtue of relying on fewer components that are "tuned" towards social interactions.
社会神经科学的研究主要侧重于将认知划分为不同的部分，作为心理过程、神经网络或社会行为的功能，而统一跨越多个社会现象的模型的需求相对被忽视。在这里，我们提出了一个新颖的框架，将社会认知视为语义认知的一个案例，该框架受到神经生物学的约束和推广，对于健康和疾病背景下的社会认知处理具有明确、可测试的预测。根据这个框架，社会认知依赖于两个主要的表示和控制系统。这些系统在神经解剖学和功能上是不同的，但相互作用以（1）使基础的、概念性的知识得以发展，以及（2）调节对这些信息的访问，以生成灵活和适应情境的社会行为。社会语义框架通过保持与之前的社会认知模型一样多的解释力，同时通过依赖于更少的“针对”社会互动的组件来保持简单，为社会信息处理的机制提供了新的视角。
