The Rockefeller University, New York, United States; Center for Brains, Minds, and Machines, United States.
Curr Opin Neurobiol. 2020 Dec;65:49-58. doi: 10.1016/j.conb.2020.08.012. Epub 2020 Oct 13.
Primate brains have evolved to understand and engage with their social world. Much about the structure of this world can be gleaned from social interactions. Circuits for the analysis of and participation in social interactions have now been mapped. Increased knowledge about their functional specializations and relative spatial locations promises to greatly improve the understanding of the functional organization of the primate social brain. Detailed electrophysiology, as in the case of the face-processing network, of local operations and functional interactions between areas is necessary to uncover neural mechanisms and computation principles of social cognition. New naturalistic behavioral paradigms, behavioral tracking, and new analytical approaches for parallel non-stationary data will be important components toward a neuroscientific theory of primates' interactive minds.
灵长类动物的大脑已经进化到能够理解和参与它们的社交世界。从社交互动中可以了解到这个世界的很多结构。现在已经绘制出了用于分析和参与社交互动的回路。关于它们的功能特化和相对空间位置的更多知识，有望极大地提高对灵长类动物社交大脑功能组织的理解。详细的电生理学，如在面部处理网络的情况下，对区域之间的局部操作和功能相互作用的研究，对于揭示社会认知的神经机制和计算原理是必要的。新的自然主义行为范式、行为跟踪以及用于并行非平稳数据的新分析方法，将是灵长类动物互动思维神经科学理论的重要组成部分。
