As time goes on, we've developed ever more complex machines to study people and we've talked about some of these already: EKG machines, so an example of an electrical device that can be used to monitor a very elaborate function deep inside your body, the beating of your heart and the rhythm of your heart.

如今,我们已经有功能更加复杂的设备,来研究人类,比如之前说到的心电图,我们使用电子装置,对身体内部机能进行精确地监控,具体到心电图就是心跳和心率

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They go through these wires and into these electrodes that are deep in your brain, and they stimulate tissue inside the brain.

电信号通过这些线路,传递至植入于大脑的电极中,由此刺激大脑中的组织

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It's a device called a deep brain stimulator, developed by a company called Medtronic, and it looks like a pacemaker that's implanted inside your body.

这个装置叫做深部脑刺激器,由美敦力公司研发,看上去像一个植入体内的起搏器

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