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

doi:10.3389/fnhum.2016.00246

	Toward a Unified Social Motor Cognition Theory of Understanding Mirror-Touch Synaesthesia
	Kuang, Shenbing
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.
关键词	Mirror-touch Synaesthsia Mirror Neuron System Mentalizing System Social Motor Cognition Predictive Coding Common Coding Theory
	2016-05-31
语种	英语
DOI	10.3389/fnhum.2016.00246
发表期刊	FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
ISSN	1662-5161
卷号	10
期刊论文类型	Article
收录类别	SCI ; SSCI
WOS关键词	PARIETAL CORTEX ; NEURON SYSTEM ; MECHANISMS ; SIMULATION ; PREDICTION ; INDUCTION ; MIND
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Social Sciences ; Life Sciences & Biomedicine
WOS研究方向	Neurosciences & Neurology ; Psychology
WOS类目	Neurosciences ; Psychology
WOS记录号	WOS:000376841400001
资助机构	Scientific Foundation of Institute of Psychology Chinese Academy of Sciences(NoN3CX112005)
引用统计	被引频次：8[WOS] [WOS记录] [WOS相关记录]
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://ir.psych.ac.cn/handle/311026/19999
专题	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
第一作者单位	脑与认知科学国家重点实验室
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).

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