Birds that are literally half asleep—with one brain hemisphere alert and the other sleeping—control which side of the brain remains awake, according to a new study of sleeping ducks.

根据一项关于睡觉的鸭子的新研究来看，半睡半醒的鸟儿——大脑的一个半球处于警觉状态，另一个半球处于睡眠状态——控制着大脑的哪一边保持清醒。

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We have only one brain.

我们只有一个大脑。

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One could think of Brooks's scheme as having, in his words, "multiple agents within one brain communicating through the world to compete for the resources of the robot's body."

我们可以这样理解布鲁克斯提出的机制——用他的话来说就是，“大脑里的个体们通过外部世界进行沟通来竞争机器人的身体资源。”

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But the wiring,the cables between the points in the brain, one to another, may be disrupted in some way."

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So, one of the discoveries of psychology is that the basic unit of the brain appears to be the neuron.

心理学的发现之一,就是,神经元是大脑的基本单元

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Someone of you may know that there's been experiments in which, for one reason or the other, the two halves of the brain have been separated.

你们中可能有人知道,有些实验曾经，出于某种实验目的，将大脑分为两部分。

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Essentially it will have the skills of all the astute scientists, flamboyant artists, and creative prodigies put together in one brain.

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For instance, one brain region called the striatum, which is involved in motivation, reward, and cognitive control, was also reduced in females with CD.

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They categorised facial dimensions such as the distance between the eyes, then recorded the electrical activity of one brain cell at a time while they showed cartoons to the macaques.

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