"For consciousness to evolve, a brain with a threshold level of complexity and capacity is required," he added.
“大脑需要具备一定的复杂性和容量，才能进化出意识。”他补充说。
He says that brain change is strongest when a) you are interested in and like what you are learning, b) you are in control of what you learn and c) you get challenging tasks that make you think hard.
他说，当你 a）对你正在学习的东西感兴趣并且喜欢它，b）你能控制你所学的东西，c）你接受有挑战性、让你努力思考的任务时，大脑的变化是最剧烈的。
The idea of linking a brain structure to human behavior is "interesting and important," he said.
他说到，将大脑结构与人类行为相联系的观点有趣味性和影响力。
Separate brain regions that process quantity and height could then have been linked up in the growing brain, he says, leading to a hard-wired understanding of the metaphor that up is more.
他说，在成长过程中大脑分管质量和高度的不同区域被联系在了一起，由此导致了“上代表多”这个隐喻被深刻在脑海中。
He says it's evidence that my brain is making a nonconscious link between the credit card and the Olympics.
他说，很显然我的大脑无意识的将信用卡和奥运会联系了起来。
That's interesting; he when he's saying that he'll never accept that this is a sentence of illusion or it was his brain that wrote down this sentence, he would always say it was me.
这很有趣，当他说这句话的时候，他不会认为这是因为幻觉，或者是他的大脑写下了这句话，他一定会认为“是我说的。”
Therefore his brain is being primed to be a caretaker. If he doesn't get some alone time [after birth] with the baby, however, the daddy brain won't develop fully.
(小孩出生后)如果他没有一些和小孩独处的时间，那么，他的大脑就会发育不完全。
For example, if a child's connectivity scan shows a brain age of 8 but his or her chronological age is 15, "you'd probably start to worry that maybe something isn't going right," he says.
例如，如果一个小孩的脑部连通性扫描结果显示其大脑年龄为8岁，而他(她)的实际年龄是15，“我们就要开始怀疑也许他(她)的脑部出现了问题。”
Etymology: 'know' refers to what is in your brain, and 'all' is everything, so a know-it-all has everything in his brain — or at least thinks he does.
词源：“know”指的是你头脑中的想法，而“all”也就是所有一切，所以，一个万事通什么都懂——至少他自己认为如此。
He asks us to consider a variation on the standard "brain in a VAT" story that is uncannily similar to the situation described in the matrix.
他让我们考虑一种标准的“缸中之脑”情节的变异版本。
He is technologically brilliant and knows it. She is a good listener with a keen financial brain (she was once an aide to Larry Summers, the then Treasury secretary).
他是一个技术天才，在技术方面无所不能，而她则是一个很好的聆听者，且拥有一个极具智慧的金融头脑(她曾经是LarrySummers的助理，后来成为了财政秘书)。
He said it could interfere with a signalling system which tells your brain to stop eating because your stomach is swelling up.
由于你的胃已经塞满了，吃饭快可能会阻碍身体信号系统将停止吃饭的信号及时告知大脑。
"The brain basically tells us a lot of information about the music in The Times when there is really no music," he says.
“其实大脑在这段没有音乐的时间里告诉了我们很多关于音乐的信息，”他表示。
He added however that the current technology, which requires surgery to connect a wire from a heart pacemaker into the brain, can cause bleeding and is "intrusive and crude".
然而他补充说：“按照现在的技术，做到这个需要通过外科手术把一个心脏起搏器链接到大脑，很可能引发失血，因此是“重创且粗陋的”手术。”
He and many others agree that maintaining a fit lifestyle is the key to keeping your brain healthy. That means eating right, exercising regularly and remaining socially active.
他和其它一些人都认为保持健康的生活方式是大脑健康的关键，也就是说应该注意饮食，经常锻炼身体和参加社会活动。
When a man is sitting staring out of a window, a brain scan shows that he is having a conversation with himself - inside his head.
当男人静静的坐着盯着窗外看的时候，脑部扫描结果显示他正在和他自己谈话——在大脑内部。
Scientists have long known that the brain registers subtle patterns subconsciously, well before a person knows he or she is learning.
科学家们早就得知，在一个人意识到他正在学习到某件事物之前，大脑就无意识得记录下了微小的模式。
He adds that there is a unique feature of the teenage brain that drives much behavior during adolescence: the teen brain is primed and ready for intense, all-consuming learning.
他进而指出，青少年的大脑有一种驱人行动的特性：血气旺盛，随时准备开始紧张，无所不包的学习。
He has managed to derive neural stem cells from 16 of these patients, out of a total of 22, and believes that success depends on which region of the brain is affected.
从22例样本中，他最终培养得到了16组神经干细胞，并且得出成功与否决定于受损伤的部位的结论。
He is given a set of words to think and the machine identifies the locations in his brain that show increased activity.
当想到一组词组，这部机器就能够标识出脑部活动活跃的区域。
But in defense of the field he notes, "Observing brain activity and setting up models for behavior is not the same as forcing a brain into making a consumption decision."
不过他也辩护说：“观察脑部活动，建立反应行为模式同强迫大脑做出消费的决定是不同的。”
"Although the link between air pollution and Alzheimer's disease is a new scientific frontier, we now have evidence that air pollution, like tobacco, is dangerous to the aging brain," he added.
“尽管空气污染和阿尔茨海默氏症之间的联系是一个新的科学前沿领域，但我们现在有证据证明，空气污染就像烟草一样，对不断老化的大脑有害，”他补充说。
It's not magic. In fact, he is the first person to have been fitted with a brain implant. It allows him to control everyday objects by thinking alone.
这并非天方夜谭。其实，作为全球首位接受脑植入装置手术的病人，他能够用意念操控许多家用电器。
"Stroke can damage brain cells, and that can cause a depression that is not psychiatrically based, but physiologically based, " he says.
中风可损害脑细胞，并可能导致不是精神病学而是生理学为基础的抑郁症”，他说。
He likens it to being a dark room: When the light is on, your brain is working properly.
他将之比喻为一个黑暗的房间：当灯亮着，你的大脑运行正常。
Traveling is one way to stimulate the brain, he said; a less adventuresome way is to do crossword puzzles.
旅游是激活大脑的一种方法，较少冒险的方法是玩拼字游戏。
The software analyzes functional MRI scans to determine what parts of a person's brain is being activated as he or she thinks.
通过分析功能磁共振成像扫描，该软件能够确定实验对象在思考时其大脑的被激发部位。
The rise of the chemicals in the blood after sleep loss may suggest not getting enough sleep is conducive to a loss of brain tissue, he explained.
他解释说，血液中的这些化学物质在睡眠缺乏后上升，暗示缺觉会导致脑组织损伤。
The rise of the chemicals in the blood after sleep loss may suggest not getting enough sleep is conducive to a loss of brain tissue, he explained.
他解释说，血液中的这些化学物质在睡眠缺乏后上升，暗示缺觉会导致脑组织损伤。
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