Enough sleep helps the brain and body grow.
充足的睡眠有助于大脑和身体的发育。
In fact, the brain is much more powerful than any supercomputer!
事实上，大脑比任何超级计算机都要强大得多！
It's important to put the brain in a learning state as often as possible.
尽可能让大脑处于学习状态是很重要的。
Jumping the rope is a kind of full-body exercise and it is great for the brain.
跳绳是一种全身运动，对大脑很有好处。
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。
Physical activity does the body good, and there's growing evidence that it helps the brain too.
体育活动对身体有好处，而且越来越多的证据表明，它对大脑也有益。
When people do something new or risky, a chemical (化学物质) in the brain creates a pleasant feeling.
人们尝试新鲜事物或是冒险性举动时，大脑中的某种化学物质会让人产生愉快感。
According to recent studies, the answer is yes: Music helps develop certain language abilities in the brain.
最近的研究表明，答案是肯定的：音乐有助于发展大脑中的某些语言能力。
Perhaps keeping one side of the brain awake allows a sleeping animal to surface occasionally to avoid drowning.
也许保持一侧大脑清醒可以让睡眠中的动物偶尔浮出水面，避免溺水。
These sense experiences build connection between different parts of the brain, opening the brain up for learning.
这些感官体验建立了大脑不同部分之间的连接，使大脑为学习打开大门。
"During REM sleep," says LaBerge, "the brain is working full-tilt, yet it is disconnected from the outside world."
拉伯格说：“在快速眼动睡眠期间，大脑处于全速工作状态，但它与外界脱节。”
Cognitive scientists are now trying to decode the human imagination, to understand how the brain visualizes, dreams and creates.
认知科学家现在正试图解码人类的想象力，以了解大脑是如何构思、想象以及创造的。
Physical activity can improve blood flow to the brain, fueling memory, attention and creativity, which are essential to learning.
体育活动可以促进血液流向大脑，提高学习必需的记忆力、注意力和创造力。
What is even more interesting is that the brain takes in all the information to create that first impression in about three seconds.
更有趣的是，大脑会在大约三秒钟内吸收所有的信息来创造第一印象。
They were taught that the brain is like a muscle that gets stronger with use and that learning prompts the brain to grow new connections.
他们得知，大脑就像一块肌肉，用得越多越强大，而且学习能促使大脑产生新的连接。
The researchers speculate that craft activities promote the development of nerve pathways in the brain that help to maintain cognitive health.
研究人员推测，手艺活动促进了大脑神经通路的发展，有助于保持认知健康。
The findings show that long term exposure to greenness is positively associated with white and grey matter volumes in several parts of the brain.
研究结果表明，长期暴露在绿色环境中与大脑的白质和灰质体积呈正相关。
In the last decade there has been an explosion of knowledge about the social brain and how the brain works when groups coordinate decision making.
在过去十年里，关于社会脑以及它在群体协调决策时如何工作的了解有了爆炸性的发展。
It would seem that the brain sees these images as puzzles, and the harder it is to decipher the meaning, the more rewarding is the moment of recognition.
大脑似乎将这些图像视为谜题，越难理解其含义，识别的那一刻就越有收获。
It is also intriguing that the brain appears to process movement when we see a handwritten letter, as if we are replaying the writer's moment of creation.
另一个有趣的事情是，当我们看到手写信件时，大脑似乎在处理动作，就好像我们在重演作者的创作时刻。
For example, social contact can boost the development of the brain and immune system, leading to better health and less chance of depression later in life.
例如，社交可以促进大脑和免疫系统的发育，使人体更健康，并在以后的生活中降低负面情绪出现的几率。
Studies have shown that exercising for as little as ten minutes before handling a task can improve performance by increasing the flow of blood to the brain.
研究表明，在处理一项任务之前，只要锻炼十分钟，就可以通过增加流向大脑的血液量来提高工作效率。
The alleged gap can be narrowed or completely overcome by anyone, in part because each of us is far from using the full capacity of either side of the brain.
任何人都可以缩小或完全克服这种所谓的差距，部分原因是我们每个人都远未充分利用大脑两个半球的全部能力。
At Wayne State University Medical School, surgeon Lucia Zamorano takes images of the brain from computerized scans and uses a computer program to produce a 3-D image.
在韦恩州立大学医学院，外科医生露西娅·扎莫拉诺通过计算机扫描获取大脑图像，并使用计算机程序生成三维图像。
But it's no ghost, according to Lehrer. Instead, the right hemisphere of the brain is assembling connections between past influences and making something entirely new.
但莱勒认为，这并不是幽灵。相反，大脑右半球正在将过去的影响联结起来，从而创造出全新的事物。
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