摘要
情绪信息对人类的生存非常重要,研究者一直在探讨情绪产生的本质问题:情绪的产生是"自动"的吗?已有的大量实验证据表明,情绪可以被快速识别,甚至在非注意条件下或者无意识条件下,情绪信息也可以被大脑(尤其是杏仁核)识别。大量实验结果分析了情绪自动化加工的表现,并探讨了情绪自动化加工的大脑机制:皮层下通路。视觉信息在视网膜接受后,经上丘脑与枕核传递至杏仁核,这条通路被称为皮层下通路,负责情绪信息的快速化加工。但是新的研究对已有的实验范式与技术手段进行了质疑,反驳情绪的自动化加工,并质疑皮层下通路存在的可能性。为了进一步理清情绪加工的本质与大脑机制,今后的研究应当采用更为严格地控制意识、注意资源的实验范式,以及采用更精确、更高时间与空间分辨率的技术手段。
Emotional information is important for human survival, and researchers have investigated whether emotion processing is automatic. A large body of evidence has demonstrated that emotional information can be detected rapidly, even without attention and consciousness. Firstly, the characteristics of automatic processing of emotions were discussed. Secondly, it was summarized that the subcortical pathway to amygdala through superior colliculus and the pulvinar nucleus of thalamus is important for automatic processing of emotions. Thirdly, the current controversial viewpoints regarding the experimental paradigms, techniques and the fast-subcortical pathway were discussed. In future studies, more precise experimental paradigms and techniques are needed to explore the nature of emotion and the neural underpinnings of emotion.
出处
《心理科学进展》
CSSCI
CSCD
北大核心
2016年第8期1185-1197,共13页
Advances in Psychological Science
基金
国家自然科学基金青年项目(31300869)
江苏省自然科学基金青年项目(BK20130415)
关键词
情绪
自动
杏仁核
皮层下通路
emotion
automatic processing
amygdala
subcortical pathway
