Toward a Unified Social Motor Cognition Theory of Understanding Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia

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	Toward a Unified Social Motor Cognition Theory of Understanding Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia
	Kuang, Shenbing
刊名	FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
	2016-05-31
卷号	10
关键词	mirror-touch synaesthsia mirror neuron system mentalizing system social motor cognition predictive coding common coding theory
ISSN号	1662-5161
英文摘要	Mirror-touch synaesthesia (MTS) is a conscious tactile sensation in the observer when watching somebody else being touched. Two disparate theories have been suggested to explain MTS. The threshold theory links MIS to hyper-activity in the parietal-frontal mirror neuron system, while the self-other theory attributes MIS to impaired self-other representations in temporal parietal junction (TPJ) and medial prefrontal cortex (mPFC). Here, I propose that these two theories can be synthesized under a unified social motor cognition theory which states that action observation engages two complementary levels of cognitive processing: a lower-level, physical process regarding basic sensory-motor aspects of the action, which supports motor imitation and goal understanding, and an abstract mental level concerning attribution of mental states, which supports interring others' minds and self-other distinctions. While the physical process preferentially recruits the mirror neuron system, the mental process depends critically on the mentalizing network comprised of TPJ and mPFC. Importantly, despite of these anatomical and functional dissimilarities, the mirroring and mentalizing processes involve shared predictive coding, which is a general computational principle for a wide range of prominent concepts in motor cognition.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Social Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
类目[WOS]	Neurosciences ; Psychology
研究领域[WOS]	Neurosciences & Neurology ; Psychology
关键词[WOS]	PARIETAL CORTEX ; NEURON SYSTEM ; MECHANISMS ; SIMULATION ; PREDICTION ; INDUCTION ; MIND
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000376841400001
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19999]
专题	心理研究所_脑与认知科学国家重点实验室
作者单位	Chinese Acad Sci, Inst Psychol, State Key Lab Brain & Cognit Sci, Beijing 100101, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Kuang, Shenbing. Toward a Unified Social Motor Cognition Theory of Understanding Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia[J]. FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE,2016,10.
APA	Kuang, Shenbing.(2016).Toward a Unified Social Motor Cognition Theory of Understanding Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia.FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE,10.
MLA	Kuang, Shenbing."Toward a Unified Social Motor Cognition Theory of Understanding Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia".FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE 10(2016).