What Are the Brain Mechanisms on Which Psychological Processes Are Based?
What Are the Brain Mechanisms on Which Psychological Processes Are Based?
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DOI：
10.1111/j.1745-6924.2009.01094.x
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发表时间：
2009-01-01
影响因子：
12.6
通讯作者：
Decety, Jean
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作者：
Cacioppo, John T.;Decety, Jean
人脑是大脑的器官这一点是毋庸置疑的，但我们对大脑背后的大脑机制知之甚少。人类大脑的功能结构和计算过程是什么，它们为认知、情感和行为提供了辅助？考虑到人脑的复杂性，在理解人脑的功能组织和结构方面的进展取决于对区分两个或更多比较条件的心理表征和过程的复杂理论规范。因此，心理学科学家处于有利地位，可以领导寻找心理过程背后的大脑机制。这样做构成了心理科学的范围的扩展，超越了行为科学，超越了精神科学，包括了大脑科学。心理科学使命的这种扩展对该学科的基础设施和培训需求有影响。
That the human brain is the organ of the mind is not in dispute, but we know remarkably little about the brain mechanisms underlying the mind. What are the functional structures and computational processes of the human brain that subserve cognition, emotion, and behavior? Given the complexity of the human brain, progress in understanding the functional organization and structure of the human brain depends on sophisticated theoretical specifications of the psychological representations and processes that differentiate two or more comparison conditions. Psychological scientists, therefore, are well positioned to lead the search for brain mechanisms underlying psychological processes. Doing so constitutes an expansion of the purview of psychological science beyond a science of behavior, and beyond a science of the mind, to include a science of the brain. Such an expansion of the mission of psychological science has implications for the infrastructure and training needs of the discipline.