Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews ( IF 7.5 ) Pub Date : 2020-08-17 , DOI: 10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.08.003 Luis Sebastian Contreras-Huerta 1 , M Andrea Pisauro 2 , Matthew A J Apps 3
Theoretical accounts typically posit that variability in social behaviour is a function of capacity limits. We argue that many social behaviours are goal-directed and effortful, and thus variability is not just a function of capacity, but also motivation. Leveraging recent work examining the cognitive, computational and neural basis of effort processing, we put forward a framework for motivated social cognition. We argue that social cognition is demanding, people avoid its effort costs, and a core-circuit of brain areas that guides effort-based decisions in non-social situations may similarly evaluate whether social behaviours are worth the effort. Thus, effort sensitivity dissociates capacity limits from social motivation, and may be a driver of individual differences and pathological impairments in social cognition.
中文翻译:
努力塑造了社会认知和行为:一种神经认知框架。
从理论上讲,社会行为的可变性通常是能力极限的函数。我们认为,许多社会行为是目标导向且努力的,因此可变性不仅是能力的函数,而且是动机。利用近期研究工作量处理的认知,计算和神经基础的工作,我们提出了动机性社会认知的框架。我们认为,社会认知是必需的,人们避免了其付出的努力成本,而在非社会情况下指导基于努力的决策的大脑区域的核心电路可能会类似地评估社会行为是否值得付出努力。因此,努力的敏感性使能力限制与社会动机脱节,并且可能是社会认知中个体差异和病理障碍的驱动因素。