Constructing memory, imagination, and empathy: a cognitive neuroscience perspective.
Constructing memory, imagination, and empathy: a cognitive neuroscience perspective.
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DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2012.00576
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发表时间：
2012
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3.8
通讯作者：
Gaesser B
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作者：
Gaesser B
关于记忆、想象力和同理心的研究在很大程度上是在孤立的情况下取得进展的。因此，人类关心和帮助他人的移情倾向被认为是独立于我们记忆和想象事件的能力之外的。尽管存在这种理论上的自主性，但来自心理学和神经科学的研究表明，这些认知能力可能是相互关联的。在本文中，我初步提出，人类生动想象特定事件的能力（在建设性记忆的支持下）可能促进亲社会的意图和行为。记忆、想象和共情之间关系的证据来自研究，这些研究表明，想象影响事件发生的感知和实际可能性，改善群体间关系，并与记忆和共情共享神经基础。尽管仍存在许多问题，但本文概述了研究想象力在促进共情和亲社会行为中的作用的新方向。
Studies on memory, imagination, and empathy have largely progressed in isolation. Consequently, humans’ empathic tendencies to care about and help other people are considered independent of our ability to remember and imagine events. Despite this theoretical autonomy, work from across psychology, and neuroscience suggests that these cognitive abilities may be linked. In the present paper, I tentatively propose that humans’ ability to vividly imagine specific events (as supported by constructive memory) may facilitate prosocial intentions and behavior. Evidence of a relationship between memory, imagination, and empathy comes from research that shows imagination influences the perceived and actual likelihood an event occurs, improves intergroup relations, and shares a neural basis with memory and empathy. Although many questions remain, this paper outlines a new direction for research that investigates the role of imagination in promoting empathy and prosocial behavior.