Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy
Dissecting the Neural Mechanisms Mediating Empathy
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DOI：
10.1177/1754073910374662
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发表时间：
2011-01-01
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影响因子：
5.4
通讯作者：
Decety, Jean
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作者：
Decety, Jean
移情被认为在激发亲社会行为，引导我们的偏好和行为反应，以及为道德发展提供情感和动机基础方面发挥着关键作用。虽然这些能力传统上是通过行为方法来检测的，但最近在进化生物学、发育和认知神经科学方面的工作已经开始揭示使这些能力实例化的神经回路。这篇文章的目的是批判性地考察情感神经科学领域的现有知识，并对共情基础上的计算机制提供一个综合和全面的观点。这一框架对理论以及未来在情感发展神经科学和精神病理学领域的研究具有普遍的兴趣和相关性。
Empathy is thought to play a key role in motivating prosocial behavior, guiding our preferences and behavioral responses, and providing the affective and motivational base for moral development. While these abilities have traditionally been examined using behavioral methods, recent work in evolutionary biology, developmental and cognitive neuroscience has begun to shed light on the neural circuitry that instantiate them. The purpose of this article is to critically examine the current knowledge in the field of affective neuroscience and provide an integrative and comprehensive view of the computational mechanisms that underlie empathy. This framework is of general interest and relevance for theory as well as for assisting future research in the domains of affective developmental neuroscience and psychopathology.