The electrodes measured activity in the nerves connecting photoreceptors - which detect different aspects of light - to the optic nerve, but not the brain.
电极用于测量连接光感受器与视神经之间的神经活动(光感受器可觉察光的不同方面)，但不测量与大脑之间的神经活动。
Studies have shown that air pollution has a great effect on the white matter in the brain, but not the grey matter.
研究表明，空气污染对大脑中的白质有很大影响，但对灰质没有影响。
"People tend to treat the brain as if it were made up of color-coded transistors," he explains, "but it's not simply a clever network of switches."
“人们倾向于把大脑当作是由许多颜色编码的晶体管组成的，”他解释道，“但它不仅仅是一个充满开关的聪明网络。”
Other studies have shown that greater stimulation not only affects the size of the brain but also increase the number of connections between the nerve cells.
其他研究表明，更大的刺激不仅会影响大脑的大小，还会增加神经细胞之间连接的数量。
The second hypothesis is that we do perceive everything, but the brain categorizes the information, and whatever is not relevant to what we are concentrating on gets treated as low priority.
第二个假设是，我们确实能够感知一切，但是大脑会对信息进行分类，而任何与我们专注的事情无关的信息都会被归类为低优先级信息。
Now, if you look at the brain—if you took the brain out and held it up, it would look pretty symmetrical, but it actually is not.
现在，如果你看一下大脑——如果你把大脑拿出来、举起来，它看起来会是非常对称的，但事实并非如此。
Everybody has a brain, but not many people know how the brain works.
每个人都有大脑，但没有多少人知道大脑是如何工作的。
Skipping rope makes not only the brain but also the eyes excited.
跳绳能使大脑跟眼睛都兴奋起来。
But brain similarity is not the only thing that can result in friendship.
但大脑相似性并不是产生友谊的唯一因素。
More and more research shows that exercise not only helps the body, but also helps the brain.
越来越多的研究表明，运动不仅对身体有益，而且对大脑有帮助。
The TV program Super Brain is not only encouraging but also interesting. It is well worth watching.
电视节目《最强大脑》不仅鼓舞人心而且十分有趣，很值得一看。
He and his colleagues instead use arrays of tiny microelectrodes that are placed in contact with the brain, but not implanted.
他和他的同事取而代之的是使用与置于大脑与之通信的微型无线通信陈列，却不植入。
The human brain has about 100 times that number of links -- but brains are not doubling in size every few years. The global machine is.
人类大脑的神经键大约有100个1万亿 --但是大脑的体积不会改变，而全球电脑的数量则每隔几年就要翻番。
Watching something and doing something are not the same, of course, but as far as our brain is concerned they're pretty darn close.
看一件事情和做一件事情当然是不一样的，但对于我们的大脑而言，这两个行为所呈现的映像是很接近的。
The part of the brain you think with, the cortex, is very important, but it's certainly not the only part of the nervous system that determines our behavior.
“大脑中你用以思考的那部分，大脑皮层，是非常重要的，但肯定不是神经系统中决定我们行为的唯一部分，”他说。
Psychologists and neuroscientists are now beginning to explore the phenomenology of time, beginning not with spacetime but with the fleshy brain.
心理学家和神经科学家现在开始探索时间的现象学问题，他们不是从时间空间开始，而是从肉质的人类大脑开始。
The subjects were not only able to tell which objects matched which echo pattern, but the brain tracking revealed the visual cortex activity when the subjects heard the echoed clicks.
这些受试者不仅可以清楚地分辨哪一种物体对应哪一种回声，而且大脑活动跟踪发现当他们听见这些回声时，大脑的视觉皮质会有活动。
Of course the brain is different, but to say whether the brain is damaged or not depends on what you mean by damaged.
当然大脑是不一样的，但说大脑受损与否是要看你说的受损是什么意思。
ECoG does require surgery, but not on the brain itself.
使用ECoG确实需要动手术，但不需要在大脑上动手术。
But Longo and Haggard are still not sure why the brain has such a distorted perception of our hand proportions.
但是Longo和Haggard还是不太确定，为什么大脑会对手的比例产生如此失真的感觉。
He therefore concluded that memories are not stored in any single area of the brain, but are instead distributed throughout it.
因此他总结说记忆并非存储在大脑的单个区域之中，而是分布在它的各个地方。
Contrary to the anatomy referenced in all of our favorite love songs, love (as with every other emotion we feel) is not rooted in the heart, but in the brain.
与所有我们喜欢的爱情歌曲的歌词相反(及我们能感知的其他感情)，爱并非来源于心灵，而是大脑。
The brain itself does not fossilise, but the inside of the cranium retains an impression of its contours.
脑部分本身是不会变成化石的，但在头盖骨内部却还保留着脑的轮廓。
But entering data into a phone might ultimately be done not with fingers but with speech-or even directly by the brain.
但我们最终可能不会用手指把数据输入电话，而是用语言——甚至直接用我们的大脑。
The team has not yet identified the rejuvenating factor, but they have found a blood-borne compound that seems to promote brain aging.
他们还没有确定重新变年轻的因素，但是他们发现了一种血液中的化合物似乎会促进大脑衰老。
But brain researchers have discovered that that's not the case.
然而脑研究者已发现事实并非如此。
This research suggests that education is not able to stop the damage but enables the brain to cope better and alleviate its impact.
这项研究证实教育并不能阻断此类破坏，但能够帮助大脑更好地应付和减轻此类破坏的影响。
But the visual areas of the brain, even in someone born blind, do not entirely disappear; instead, they are redeployed for other senses.
即使有些人天生失明，但他们大脑的视觉区域不会消失。取而代之，大脑会重新调动其他感官。
But the visual areas of the brain, even in someone born blind, do not entirely disappear; instead, they are redeployed for other senses.
即使有些人天生失明，但他们大脑的视觉区域不会消失。取而代之，大脑会重新调动其他感官。
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