基于中医语言的中医思维研究--来自认知神经科学的新方法

中医语言是一种基于隐喻思维的语言,描绘了一个有关人体生理、病理以及疾病治疗的隐喻世界。隐喻不仅是一种语言现象,更重要的是一种认知或思维方式。不同的认知方式将导致大脑电磁波信息和代谢信息的差异。如果中医语言与西医语言存在差异,那么理解此两种语言时将呈现不同的大脑神经活动,且此差异能被事件相关电位(ERPs)技术与功能性磁共振成像(f MRI)技术捕捉。文章为"中医具有独特性思维方式"的命题研究提供了来自认知神经科学的研究方法。在分析了认知神经科学方法和理论在隐喻认知研究的应用以及中医语言认知研究现况后,提出了应用ERPs技术和f MRI技术研究中医思维的理论假说和中西医语言对比研究方案。应用此类技术研究中医语言将开辟中医认知实证研究的道路,因而具有重要意义。

Study of TCM thinking based on TCM language:a novel way from cogni-tive neuroscience

TCMlanguage is a language based on metaphorical thought,describing a metaphorical world of human physiology,pathology and treatment of diseases.Metaphor is not only a linguistic phenomenon, but more importantly,a cognitive or thinking mode.Various cognitive modes will produce diverse cere-bral electromagnetic and metabolic information.Understanding Chinese medicine language will lead to different brain nerve activities from those Western medicine leading to,if there were differences between the two medicines.Event-related potential (ERPs)technology or the functional magnetic resonance ima-ging (fMRI)technology can be used to capture the different brain activities.This article provided a new way for exploration the proposition“TCM has a unique way of thinking”,from cognitive neuroscience. Consequently,the application of cognitive neuroscience methods and theories in metaphorical cognition study and the research status of TCMlanguage cognition were analyzed.Accordingly,the theoretical hy-pothesis of TCMthinking and the scheme of linguistic contrastive study of Chinese and Western medicine by application of ERPs technology and fMRI technology were put forward.It would be of great signifi-cance that ERPs and fMRI provide a novel way for empirical study of TCMcognition.