Social cognitive neuroscience examines social phenomena and processes using cognitive neuroscience research tools such as neuroimaging and neuropsychology. This review examines four broad areas of research within social cognitive neuroscience: (a) understanding others, (b) understanding oneself, (c) controlling oneself, and (d) the processes that occur at the interface of self and others. In addition, this review highlights two core-processing distinctions that can be neurocognitively identified across all of these domains. The distinction between automatic versus controlled processes has long been important to social psychological theory and can be dissociated in the neural regions contributing to social cognition. Alternatively, the differentiation between internally-focused processes that focus on one's own or another's mental interior and externally-focused processes that focus on one's own or another's visible features and actions is a new distinction. This latter distinction emerges from social cognitive neuroscience investigations rather than from existing psychological theories demonstrating that social cognitive neuroscience can both draw on and contribute to social psychological theory.

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社会认知神经科学：核心过程的审查。

社会认知神经科学使用诸如神经影像学和神经心理学之类的认知神经科学研究工具来检查社会现象和过程。这篇综述检查了社会认知神经科学中的四个广泛的研究领域：（a）理解他人，（b）理解自己，（c）控制自己，以及（d）在自我和他人的界面上发生的过程。此外，本综述重点介绍了在所有这些域中都可以神经认知识别的两个核心处理区别。长期以来，自动过程与受控过程之间的区别对于社会心理学理论一直很重要，并且可以在有助于社会认知的神经区域中消失。或者，将内部关注流程与关注自己或他人的流程区分开来。专注于自己或他人的可见特征和行为的心理内部和外部关注过程是一个新的区别。后者的区别来自社会认知神经科学的研究，而不是来自现有的心理学理论，表明社会认知神经科学既可以借鉴也可以为社会心理学理论做出贡献。