Faculty of Medicine and the Department of Cognitive Sciences, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Department of Neurology, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical School, Jerusalem 91120, Israel.
Soc Cogn Affect Neurosci. 2022 Oct 3;17(10):939-955. doi: 10.1093/scan/nsac017.
Growing evidence suggests that cognitive maps represent relations between social knowledge similar to how spatial locations are represented in an environment. Notably, the extant human medial temporal lobe literature assumes associations between social stimuli follow a linear associative mapping from an egocentric viewpoint to a cognitive map. Yet, this form of associative social memory does not account for a core phenomenon of social interactions in which social knowledge learned via comparisons to the self, other individuals or social networks are assimilated within a single frame of reference. We argue that hippocampal-entorhinal coordinate transformations, known to integrate egocentric and allocentric spatial cues, inform social perspective switching between the self and others. We present evidence that the hippocampal formation helps inform social interactions by relating self vs other social attribute comparisons to society in general, which can afford rapid and flexible assimilation of knowledge about the relationship between the self and social networks of varying proximities. We conclude by discussing the ramifications of cognitive maps in aiding this social perspective transformation process in states of health and disease.
越来越多的证据表明，认知地图代表了社会知识之间的关系，类似于空间位置在环境中的表示方式。值得注意的是，现有的人类内侧颞叶文献假设社会刺激之间的关联遵循从自我中心视角到认知地图的线性关联映射。然而，这种形式的联想社会记忆并不能解释社交互动的一个核心现象，即在这种现象中，通过与自我、其他个体或社交网络进行比较而获得的社会知识被整合到单个参照系中。我们认为，已知海马体-内嗅皮层坐标变换可整合自我中心和他心空间线索，有助于在自我和他人之间进行社会视角切换。我们提出证据表明，海马体形成通过将自我与他人社会属性的比较与整个社会联系起来，帮助进行社会互动，从而能够快速灵活地同化关于自我和不同远近的社交网络之间关系的知识。最后，我们讨论了认知地图在帮助健康和疾病状态下进行这种社会视角转换过程中的意义。
