Infant joint attention, neural networks and social cognition
Infant joint attention, neural networks and social cognition
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DOI：
10.1016/j.neunet.2010.08.009
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发表时间：
2010-10-01
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7.8
通讯作者：
Jarrold, William
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作者：
Mundy, Peter;Jarrold, William
注意力的神经网络模型可以为人类认知和情感发展的研究提供统一的方法（Posner & Rothbart，2007）。在本文中，我们认为，一个神经网络的方法来婴儿发展的联合注意力可以告知我们的理解，人类社会学习的性质，符号思维过程和社会认知。最基本的，联合注意力包括协调自己的视觉注意力与另一个人的视觉注意力的能力。我们建议，联合注意力的发展涉及增量的能力，同时或并行处理的信息对自己的注意力和其他人的注意力。婴儿的共同注意练习是一个涉及额叶和顶叶皮质系统的分布式和集成的大脑网络发展的结果和组织者。这个执行分布式网络首先用于调节婴儿对他人的公开行为做出反应和指导的能力，以便通过视觉注意的社会协调与他人分享经验。在本文中，我们描述了这种并行和分布式神经网络模型的联合注意力的发展，并讨论了两个假设，源于这个模型。第一，在协调注意过程中，这种分布式网络的激活增强了生命第一年开始的信息处理和编码的深度。我们还提出，随着发展，联合注意力成为内在的能力，社会协调心理注意的内部表征。在这种情况下，执行联合注意网络对人类符号思维和社会认知的发展做出了重要贡献。(C)2010爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
Neural network models of attention can provide a unifying approach to the study of human cognitive and emotional development (Posner & Rothbart, 2007). In this paper we argue that a neural network approach to the infant development of joint attention can inform our understanding of the nature of human social learning, symbolic thought process and social cognition. At its most basic, joint attention involves the capacity to coordinate one's own visual attention with that of another person. We propose that joint attention development involves increments in the capacity to engage in simultaneous or parallel processing of information about one's own attention and the attention of other people. Infant practice with joint attention is both a consequence and an organizer of the development of a distributed and integrated brain network involving frontal and parietal cortical systems. This executive distributed network first serves to regulate the capacity of infants to respond to and direct the overt behavior of other people in order to share experience with others through the social coordination of visual attention. In this paper we describe this parallel and distributed neural network model of joint attention development and discuss two hypotheses that stem from this model. One is that activation of this distributed network during coordinated attention enhances the depth of information processing and encoding beginning in the first year of life. We also propose that with development, joint attention becomes internalized as the capacity to socially coordinate mental attention to internal representations. As this occurs the executive joint attention network makes vital contributions to the development of human symbolic thinking and social cognition. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.