They alter our emotions, which impairs our thinking by reducing focus, attention, memory, and our ability to execute plans.

它们改变我们的情绪，通过减少集中点、注意力、记忆力和我们执行计划的能力来损害我们的思想。

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A new study now shows that visual working memory can influence our perceptions, so that mental images in the mind's eye can alter the way we see things.

一项新研究表明，视觉工作记忆可以影响我们的感知，所以记忆中的心理影像可以改变我们感知事物的方式。

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To complete our example and see how all of this matters, if you wanted to fool this game into giving you a bonus, you could go into memory and alter the data that control the potion's strength.

为了完成我们的例子并且了解这一切的重要性：如果你想通过作弊的方式获得那笔奖励的话，你可以到内存中改变决定药剂力量值的数据。

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But if you have a long-term memory, you alter the expression of genes in the brain and you grow new synaptic connections.

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