Our research team was asked to consider the relationship of the neuroscience of sensorimotor control to the language of emotions and feelings. Actions are the principal means for the communication of emotions and feelings in both humans and other animals, and the allostatic mechanisms controlling action also apply to the regulation of emotional states by the self and others. We consider how motor control of hierarchically organised, feedback-based, goal-directed action has evolved in humans, within a context of consciousness, appraisal and cultural learning, to serve emotions and feelings. In our linguistic analysis, we found that many emotion and feelings words could be assigned to stages in the sensorimotor learning process, but the assignment was often arbitrary. The embodied nature of emotional communication means that action words are frequently used, but that the meanings or senses of the word depend on its contextual use, just as the relationship of an action to an emotion is also contextually dependent.

中文翻译：

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用于理解情绪沟通和调节的感觉运动控制框架。

我们的研究团队被要求考虑感觉运动控制的神经科学与情绪和感觉语言的关系。行动是人类和其他动物交流情感和感受的主要手段，控制行动的调节机制也适用于自我和他人对情绪状态的调节。我们考虑人类如何在意识、评价和文化学习的背景下进化出对分层组织、基于反馈、目标导向的行动的运动控制，以服务于情感和感受。在我们的语言分析中，我们发现许多情感和感受词可以分配到感觉运动学习过程中的各个阶段，但分配通常是任意的。情感交流的具体化本质意味着动作词被频繁使用，但该词的含义或意义取决于其上下文使用，就像动作与情感的关系也依赖于上下文一样。