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。
Recent technologies have gone beyond standard lie-detector tests to use brain information to determine if a person is lying.
最新的技术已经远远超过利用大脑信息来确定一个人是否撒谎的标准测谎试验。
The more we repeat something and use that portion of the brain in a focused way new neural pathways might develop in your brain.
当你集中精力使用大脑的某一部分，反复地做某一件事的时候，新的神经通路在你的大脑里就渐渐形成了。
Even after we evolved the ability to use weapons and became predators ourselves, this ancient brain circuit still offered a useful defense against members of our own species.
即使进化到更够使用武器，自身也变成了捕食者，这些大脑中的古老神经回路仍然提供了一种针对其他人类行之有效的防御手段。
Hopefully, the current trend in the use of musicians as a model for brain plasticity will continue... and extend to the field of neuropsychological rehabilitation.
完全有希望地说，音乐家当作脑可塑性研究典型这一现代趋势将继续下去……并且将扩展到神经心理治疗领域。
The research, often involving the use of neuro-imaging techniques, is helping us to understand more clearly what happens in the brain when a person learns or USES more than one language.
这项研究会经常使用到神经成像技术，来帮助我们更清楚的了解当人学习或使用多种语言时脑子里发生了什么。
The idea was to use PET scans combined with recently available chemicals that reveal endorphins in the brain, to compare runners’ brains before and after a long run.
研究使用PET扫描仪将跑步者长跑前后的大脑进行对比，扫描仪中有能够用于显示大脑中内啡肽的化学物质。
What's not easy is when we show a brain on TV. Sometimes we use real animal parts, which disturbs people on the set.
把大脑展示在电视上并不简单，有时候我们用在片场打扰了人闪的动物的器官代替。
The idea of the brain as a muscle – "use it or lose it" – is far from established; the evidence for the benefits of "brain training" software, or doing the crossword daily, remains patchy.
大脑和肌肉一样“越用越灵活”的观点还远未被确证；也没有过硬的证据证明使用大脑训练软件或每天做填字游戏等活动的益处。
To test the use of the technique for investigating brain disease, the researchers looked at a mouse model of glioma, a deadly form of brain cancer.
为了测试这项技术在研究大脑疾病中的优势，研究者们观察了一种致命的大脑疾病——神经胶质瘤的小鼠模型。
Working memory is the ability to hold bits of information in the brain for current use-the digits of a phone number, for example.
工作记忆是指信息存储大脑之中，并且在当前使用的能力，比如记忆电话号码。
Using PET scans, doctors can image the amount of glucose used by the brain to determine whether there's a difference in brain use by the frontal lobe, temporal lobe or the parietal lobe.
通过PET扫描，医生能够把大脑使用的葡萄糖量成像，以此来确定大脑额叶、颞叶和顶叶是否存在使用差异。
To use a camera analogy, "the Americans are more zoom and the East Asians are more panoramic," said Dr. Denise Park of the Center for Brain Health at the University of Texas in Dallas.
用相机模拟来说，“美国人更注重焦距，而东亚人更注重全景，”供职于达拉斯得克萨斯州立大学脑部康复中心的丹尼斯·派克医生说。
Physical activity of any form, which does not involve the use of brain, helps relax the strain of continuous thinking while creating a sense of accomplishment.
任何形式的体力活动，当然不包括大脑的使用，都可以使持续思考带来的压力得到放松，产生一种成就感。
Aron Coleite, writer and producer for the TV hit "Heroes," said the show's team knew it's false that humans use only a small fraction of the brain.
电视剧《heroes》的编剧兼制片阿隆。考雷特称，剧组团队都知道关于人类大脑只被利用了一小部分这个观点是错误的。
The researchers are confident that a similar switch exists in the human brain - and say that drugs that capitalise on their discovery could be in use in ten years.
研究人员相信，人的大脑也存在类似的开关，并且认为能用于临床的新药10年之后便可开发出来。
The drug used on the mice, Vorinostat, is already used to treat a rare blood cancer but is too destructive for use in the human brain.
这种用于试验小鼠的药物学名叫伏立诺他 (vorinostat ) ，它被用于治疗一种罕见的血癌，但目前会对大脑造成严重的破坏。
"Worrying eats up brain resources they could use to perform well, " a physiological phenomenon Beilock explains in her book, "Choke."
“忧虑将那些有助于人们表现良好的大脑资源给耗光了。” 这指的就是她在著作里解释过的一种生理现象，“窒息”。
The use of bone marrow stem cells is safe in treating children with brain trauma, a team from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston determined.
休斯顿德克萨斯大学的一支团队决定使用骨髓干细胞来治疗儿童的脑部创伤，因为这种治疗方法对孩子们也安全。
"This means we can use a noninvasive method to develop the next generation of brain-computer interface machines," Contreras-Vidal says.
“这意味着我们可以用一种无创的方式来开发下一代的脑机接口设备，”孔特雷·拉斯·维达尔说。
Milk contains tryptophan, the amino acids that have a sedative effect and calcium that helps the brain use tryptophan.
牛奶中含有色氨酸，具有镇静效果的氨基酸，以及可以有助于大脑利用色氨酸的钙。
I found a great way to clear emotional baggage is to use the brain dumping exercise, where you dump your emotions in a journal for about 10-15 minutes.
我找到一个很好的方法去清除感情行李就是练习用大脑去甩掉它们，这样你可以在10 -15分钟内去除这些情绪。
As we learn new information, the brain stores the words, languages and grammatical structures that we use most often in a way that makes them easy to access.
当我们获悉新信息时，大脑把我们使用得最频繁的单词、语言和语法结构按照一种容易访问到的方式来存储。
Despite a huge upsurge in cellphone use over the past two decades, brain cancer rates in the United States have been declining.
因为尽管在过去的二十年里，美国使用手机的人数骤增，但患脑癌的人数比例却一直在下降。
Indeed, although certain minor functions may use only a small part of the brain at one time, any sufficiently complex set of activities or thought patterns will indeed use many parts of the brain.
事实上，虽然在某一时间，一些小功能可能只用到一小部分大脑，但是任何非常复杂的活动或思维模式确实会用到大脑的很多部分。
However, a lack of evidence could simply mean that mobile phones have not been in widespread use for long enough, for many brain tumors take years to develop.
但证据不充足也可能只是说明手机被广泛普及使用的时间还不够长，因为很多脑瘤的形成也需要很多年。
Could it be that we have tapped more of our cognitive reserve, you know, we say we only use a certain amount of our brain, maybe we're using more of that in this case?
有没有可能我们开发了更多未被使用的认知潜能，人们常说，我们只用了大脑的一小部分，这个研究有没可能意味着开发了更多的大脑潜力？
The brain almost always has a plan B, even when deciding which hand to use to press a button, a new study finds.
一项新的研究表明，即使是在决定使用哪只手按下按钮的问题上，大脑也几乎总有一个备用方案。
The brain almost always has a plan B, even when deciding which hand to use to press a button, a new study finds.
一项新的研究表明，即使是在决定使用哪只手按下按钮的问题上，大脑也几乎总有一个备用方案。
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