“我们利用虚拟现实技术设计了这个实验，”哈萨比斯说，“人们可以在这个虚拟世界自由行动，就像玩《雷神之锤》游戏一样。

‘We basically created an experiment with a virtual reality environment,’ says Hassabis, ‘which people navigated around, like playing Quake.

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哈萨比斯所在的研究队伍正试图发现，当人们经历一个事件时，是什么被编码在了记忆里。他们还在进行海马区的扫描工作。这一区域对记忆来说至关重要。

The team is looking for what is encoded by memory when people experience something, and are exploring the hippocampus, the part of the brain critical for memory.

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哈萨·比斯是伦敦大学学院的一名维康基金会研究员。他主要研究记忆是如何储存在大脑中的。

Hassabis is one of a group of Wellcome Trust researchers based at University College London, who have been looking at how memory is stored in the brain.

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