Research in social neuroscience has primarily focused on carving up cognition into distinct pieces, as a function of mental process, neural network or social behaviour, while the need for unifying models that span multiple social phenomena has been relatively neglected. Here we present a novel framework that treats social cognition as a case of semantic cognition, and which is neurobiologically constrained and generalizable, with clear, testable predictions regarding sociocognitive processing in the context of both health and disease. According to this framework, social cognition relies on two principal systems of representation and control. These systems are neuroanatomically and functionally distinct, but interact to (1) enable development of foundational, conceptual-level knowledge and (2) regulate access to this information in order to generate flexible and context-appropriate social behaviour. The Social Semantics framework shines new light on the mechanisms of social information processing by maintaining as much explanatory power as prior models of social cognition, whilst remaining simpler, by virtue of relying on fewer components that are "tuned" towards social interactions.

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社会语义学：概念知识和认知控制在社会大脑神经生物学模型中的作用。

社会神经科学的研究主要集中在将认知分解为不同的部分，这是心理过程，神经网络或社会行为的函数，而相对较少地需要跨越多种社会现象的统一模型。在这里，我们提出了一个新颖的框架，该框架将社会认知作为一种语义认知案例，并且在神经生物学上受到限制和普遍化，并在健康和疾病的背景下对社会认知过程进行了清晰，可检验的预测。根据这个框架，社会认知依赖于代表和控制的两个主要系统。这些系统在神经解剖学和功能上各不相同，但与（1）相互作用可以促进基础，概念层面的知识；（2）规范对这些信息的访问，以产生灵活且适合具体情况的社会行为。社会语义框架通过保持与先前的社会认知模型一样多的解释力，而在保持更简单的基础上，依靠对社会互动进行“调整”的组件，从而对社会信息处理机制有了新的启示。