LI Zhan,JIA Chunhua.The Empirical Research Path of Yin-Yang Thinking in Traditional Chinese Medicine[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023,64(19):1945-1949.
LI Zhan,JIA Chunhua.The Empirical Research Path of Yin-Yang Thinking in Traditional Chinese Medicine[J].Journal of Traditional Chinese Medicine,2023,64(19):1945-1949.DOI: 10.13288/j.11-2166/r.2023.19.001.
The Empirical Research Path of Yin-Yang Thinking in Traditional Chinese Medicine
theory is a thinking model used by ancient people to recognize the world, which is highly compatible with multimodal metaphors. By summarizing the current researches on traditional Chinese medicine (TCM)
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theory and thinking, it is found that there are more clinical researches but few empirical studies, and more conceptual studies but few empirical researches. In view of this, we proposed to conduct researches on TCM
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thinking with the methods such as behavioral experiments, event-related potentials, and functional magnetic resonance imaging techniques, based on the multimodal metaphor theory from the perspective of cognitive science. According to the characteristics of
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, the process of TCM
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thinking is divided into two stages which are
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classification and
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reasoning, and the main directions of empirical research on
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thinking in TCM are outlined by combining with the paradigm of cognitive science, that is, the researches are carried out from the cognitive characteristics of TCM
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thinking, as well as the differences in cognitive mechanisms between TCM
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