A new concept of brain lateralization from the function of the temporo-parietal junctions: Comment on “Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function” by Doricchi et al.
A new concept of brain lateralization from the function of the temporo-parietal junctions: Comment on “Left and right temporal-parietal junctions (TPJs) as “match/mismatch” hedonic machines: A unifying account of TPJ function” by Doricchi et al.
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来自颞顶叶连接处功能的大脑偏侧化的新概念:Doricchi 等人对“左右颞顶叶连接处 (TPJ) 作为“匹配/不匹配”享乐机器:对 TPJ 功能的统一说明”的评论。
DOI:
10.1016/j.plrev.2023.02.001
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发表时间:
2023
影响因子:
11.7
通讯作者:
Morioka Shu
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作者:
瀬谷安弘;Morioka Shu
The human brain forms stable images of the self and the world by minimizing prediction errors. This theory of predictive processing of the brain was proposed by Carl Friston [1]. This theory, called the free-energy principle, argues that human psychological phenomena such as movement, perception, emotion, cognition, and decision-making emerge when humans make control decisions based on predictions. The brain functions to reduce prediction errors based on one’s own experiences. The predictive signal in the brain is called the efference copy, and this efference copy is compared with the actual sensory feedback in the parietal lobe. If the discrepancy between the two values is more significant than a threshold value, it is defined as a mismatch. However, if the prediction error is small, the match between the brain-body-environment information is stable. Doricchi et al.[2] argued that the temporoparietal junction (TPJ) is responsible for this match-mismatch information processing. Notably, the left and right hemispheres process information differently. I believe that this is a new concept of brain lateralization based on TPJ function. From the split-brain experiment [3], the difference between the left and right brain functions was dubbed lateralization. This phenomenon was already well known in neuropsychiatry. For example, Brain [4] reported visuospatial neglect in patients with right parietal lobe injuries. Broca [5] reported aphasia in patients with left inferior frontal gyrus injuries. Subsequently, it was recognized that language is processed in a frontal-parietal-temporal network that includes the left TPJ [6]. Doricchi et al.[2] stated that the TPJ may be involved in the interface between past knowledge (ie, memory) and ongoing sensory stimuli (ie, the match-mismatch between such information). As for the classical theory by Jean Piaget, he advocated a learning process that increases knowledge by assimilation if new information matches known information and accommodation if a mismatch exists, thereby increasing knowledge. The left TPJ may be involved in these functions of the human brain. The left hemisphere is also involved in tool manipulation. Buxbaum et al.[7] reported that the left inferior parietal lobule is responsible for knowledge of tool manipulation (gestural engram). Osiurak et al.[8] suggested that the left inferior parietal lobule is responsible for technical reasoning such as inferring the use of a tool based on its structure, and that its dysfunction was described as apraxia. Pazzaglia et al.[9] showed that the foci of apraxia were the left inferior parietal lobule and the left inferior frontal gyrus. We showed that apraxia is a dysfunctional integration of