Laboratory for Imagination and Executive Functions, RIKEN Center for Brain Science, Wako, Japan.
Neurosci Res. 2024 Apr;201:46-49. doi: 10.1016/j.neures.2024.02.003. Epub 2024 Mar 8.
For animals, including humans, to have self-awareness, the ability to reflect on one's own perceptions and cognitions, which is known as metacognition, and an understanding of consistency of the self from the past to the present and into the future based on metacognition is essential. Through the mediation of self-consciousness, animals are thought to be able to proactively act to change their environment rather than passively responding to changes in their environment. However, it has not been known whether animals have self-awareness, and, if so, how it is implemented neurobiologically. In this review article, I introduce our studies examining the neural basis of metacognitive abilities for past, present, and future actions in macaque monkeys and humans, and explore the evolutionary origins of self-awareness.
对于动物（包括人类）来说，拥有自我意识，即能够反思自己的感知和认知，这被称为元认知，以及基于元认知理解过去、现在和未来自我的一致性，是至关重要的。通过自我意识的调节，动物被认为能够主动地采取行动来改变环境，而不是被动地对环境变化做出反应。然而，目前还不清楚动物是否具有自我意识，如果有，它在神经生物学上是如何实现的。在这篇综述文章中，我介绍了我们在猕猴和人类中研究过去、现在和未来行为的元认知能力的神经基础的研究，并探讨了自我意识的进化起源。
