Development of abstract thinking during childhood and adolescence: the role of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex.
Development of abstract thinking during childhood and adolescence: the role of rostrolateral prefrontal cortex.
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10.1016/j.dcn.2014.07.009
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2014-10
影响因子：
4.7
通讯作者：
Dumontheil I
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Dumontheil I
吻侧前额叶皮层（RPFC）支持自我生成的抽象思维处理。灵活地关注和处理抽象思想是在青春期发展起来的。在开发过程中，RPFC激活变得更加特定于关系集成。前瞻记忆的发展有待于神经影像学的进一步研究。训练抽象思维，例如推理，可能对教育有影响。在灵长类动物的进化过程中，吻侧前额叶皮层（Rostral prefrontal cortex， RPFC）的大小增加，细胞组织也发生了变化。与此同时，还出现了将自己从直接环境中分离出来处理抽象思维、解决问题以及理解他人想法和意图的能力。前额叶皮层（RLPFC）被认为在支持抽象的、通常是自我产生的思想的整合方面起着重要作用。思想可以是暂时抽象的，与长期目标、过去或未来的事件有关，也可以是关系抽象的，专注于表征之间的关系，而不是简单的刺激特征。行为研究提供了与RLPFC相关的认知功能长期发展的证据，特别是逻辑和关系推理，但也包括情景记忆检索和前瞻记忆。功能和结构神经成像研究进一步支持了RLPFC在青春期的长期发展，一些证据表明RLPFC在关系整合和情景记忆检索方面的激活增加了专业化。未来的研究主题将会被讨论，例如：在社会领域的抽象思维处理中，内侧RPFC的作用，在推理领域训练抽象思维的可能性，以及与教育的联系。
Rostral prefrontal cortex (RPFC) supports self-generated, abstract thought processing. Flexibly attending towards and processing abstract thoughts develop in adolescence. RPFC activation becomes more specific to relational integration during development. Prospective memory development remains to be further studied using neuroimaging. Training of abstract thinking, e.g. reasoning, may have implication for education. Rostral prefrontal cortex (RPFC) has increased in size and changed in terms of its cellular organisation during primate evolution. In parallel emerged the ability to detach oneself from the immediate environment to process abstract thoughts and solve problems and to understand other individuals’ thoughts and intentions. Rostrolateral prefrontal cortex (RLPFC) is thought to play an important role in supporting the integration of abstract, often self-generated, thoughts. Thoughts can be temporally abstract and relate to long term goals, or past or future events, or relationally abstract and focus on the relationships between representations rather than simple stimulus features. Behavioural studies have provided evidence of a prolonged development of the cognitive functions associated with RLPFC, in particular logical and relational reasoning, but also episodic memory retrieval and prospective memory. Functional and structural neuroimaging studies provide further support for a prolonged development of RLPFC during adolescence, with some evidence of increased specialisation of RLPFC activation for relational integration and aspects of episodic memory retrieval. Topics for future research will be discussed, such as the role of medial RPFC in processing abstract thoughts in the social domain, the possibility of training abstract thinking in the domain of reasoning, and links to education.
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