What have past behavioral studies found about our brain?
过去的行为研究对我们的大脑有什么发现？
Normal forgetting may even be a safety mechanism to ensure our brain doesn't become too full.
正常的遗忘甚至可能是一种安全机制，确保我们的大脑容量不会超负荷。
Reading and writing involve a number of senses and when writing by hand our brain receives feedback from our muscles and fingertips.
阅读和写作涉及多种感官，当我们用手写字时，我们的大脑会从肌肉和指尖得到反馈。
In short, our brain evolved circuits to allow us to experience sympathy, which in turn made civilization, and ethics based on sympathy, possible.
简而言之，我们的大脑进化出了让我们体验同情的回路，这反过来又使文明和基于同情的伦理成为可能。
There is a hypothesis that we sleep so that our brain can repair and refresh itself.
有一种假设是，我们睡觉是为了让大脑自我修复和更新。
Playing an instrument or singing, says Nina Kraus, can help us do better in school and keep our brain sharp as we get older.
尼娜·克劳斯说，弹奏乐器或唱歌可以帮助我们在学校表现得更好，且随着年龄的增长，我们的大脑也会保持敏锐。
Scientists say that music makes our brain "feel happy" and it explains the importance of music in cultures all over the world.
科学家们说，音乐能让我们的大脑“开心”，这说明了音乐在世界各地文化中的重要性。
Despite there being different views on the reason for curiosity, most experts reach an agreement that like the way the stomach looks for food, our brain looks for knowledge.
尽管好奇心的成因众说纷纭，但大多数专家一致认为，就像胃寻求食物一样，我们的大脑寻找知识。
An interesting thing is that our brain will release a pleasure-related chemical when it has been given new information, making seeking information much like eating—another pleasant activity.
有趣的是，当我们的大脑得到新信息时，它会释放一种与快乐相关的化学物质，使得寻找信息成为像进食一样的另一种惬意活动。
Is it true that we use only 10% of our brain?
我们只使用了我们大脑的10%，这是真的吗？
The things we read are like food to our brain.
书籍之类的读物对我们头脑来说就象是食物。
For no one can steal what our brain contains.
因为没有人能偷走我们脑子中的东西。
Well, every car can break down and so does our brain.
这又如何？每辆车都可能会抛锚，我们的大脑也是如此。
But it's not just associations that are set in our brain.
但这还不只是我们头脑中的关联。
Eighty percent of the volume of our brain, about, is cortex.
我们大脑容量的大约百分之八十，都是大脑皮层。
But if rest is the goal, why does our brain remain hard at work?
但是如果目的仅是休息，为什么我们的大脑仍然保持辛苦的工作状态呢？
Glucose also passes into our brain cells to power our thoughts.
葡萄糖也输送到我们的脑细胞中为我们的思维提供能量。
Scientists have long thought that the structure of our brain is fixed.
科学家们长期认为人类大脑的结构是固定的。
Many of us are all too aware that our brain cells decline with age.
很多人都很关注随着年龄的增长脑细胞会消亡这件事情。
We didn't study these traits, but they are imprinted on our brain and psyche.
我们没有细细研究过这些特征，但是它们却会深深印刻在我们的大脑和心头。
Roughly sketched, our brain has two types of processes: control and automatic.
粗略地勾画，我们大脑里的程序有两种类型：控制型的和自动化型的。
All he does is find the precise Angle where our brain assumes an impossible act.
所有他所做的就是找到一个精确的角度，让我们的大脑假想出一个不可能的动作。
"Ultimately, of course, what makes us intellectually human is our brain," he says.
“最终，当然，是我们的大脑让我们有人类的智力，”他说。
What, exactly, is going on inside our brain when we take a bite of that fudge cheesecake?
在我们吃下那块儿香甜的乳酪蛋糕时，究竟是什么控制了我们的大脑？
What, exactly, is going on inside our brain when we take a bite of that fudge cheesecake?
在我们吃下那块儿香甜的乳酪蛋糕时，究竟是什么控制了我们的大脑？
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