According to the theory of embodied simulation, mirror neurons (MN) in our brain's motor system are the neuronal basis of all social‐cognitive processes. The assumption of such a mirroring process in humans could be supported by results showing that within one person the same region is involved in different social cognition tasks. We conducted an fMRI‐study with 75 healthy participants who completed three tasks: imitation, empathy, and theory of mind. We analyzed the data using group conjunction analyses and individual shared voxel counts. Across tasks, across and within participants, we find common activation in inferior frontal gyrus, inferior parietal cortex, fusiform gyrus, posterior superior temporal sulcus, and amygdala. Our results provide evidence for a shared neural basis for different social‐cognitive processes, indicating that interpersonal understanding might occur by embodied simulation.

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人类镜像神经元系统——社会认知的共同神经基础？

根据具身模拟理论，我们大脑运动系统中的镜像神经元（MN）是所有社会认知过程的神经元基础。结果表明，在一个人中，同一区域涉及不同的社会认知任务，可以支持人类中这种镜像过程的假设。我们对 75 名健康参与者进行了 fMRI 研究，他们完成了三项任务：模仿、同理心和心理理论。我们使用组连接分析和个人共享体素计数来分析数据。跨任务、跨参与者和在参与者内部，我们发现额下回、顶叶下皮质、梭状回、颞上后沟和杏仁核的共同激活。我们的结果为不同社会认知过程的共享神经基础提供了证据，