But imagine that what's gone on is there's been decay of the brain structures that underwrite the cognitive functioning.

但这样设想一下,大脑的结构正在败坏,破坏了认知能力。

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Why, then, should we not study the acquisition of a cognitive structure like language more or less as we study some complex bodily organ?

我们为什么不应当,像研究某些复杂身体器官那样,去或多或少地研究,像语言这样的认知结构的习得

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The cognitive structures are still there, but the on-off switch is switched to off.

认知结构仍然存在，只是开关还没有被开启。

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Well, presumably because whatever cognitive structures it takes in your brain to underwrite the ability to P-function, those cognitive structures have been broken, so they no longer work.

大概是因为,无论你大脑中的什么认知结构,使得人格功能性成为可能，这种认知结构都被破坏了，它们不再继续工作。

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But you could also change your system of knowledge itself, accommodation.

你改变已有的认知结构,以适应新的环境和信息,便是顺应

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You could expand it to encompass new things, assimilation.

你将新信息纳入已有的认知结构中,便是同化

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