Scientists say that music makes our brain "feel happy" and it explains the importance of music in cultures all over the world.
科学家们说，音乐能让我们的大脑“开心”，这说明了音乐在世界各地文化中的重要性。
They found that particular collections of brain cells encoded the person's location in the virtual world, and they were able to use this to predict where each volunteer was standing.
研究者们发现，大量特定的脑细胞会对一个人在虚拟世界里的位置进行编码，他们能够利用这一特性来预测每个志愿者所处的位置。
In the business world, it's a distinct advantage to have a brain that anticipates future demands and negotiates them well.
在商业世界中，能够预知未来的需求并且将它们协调好的大脑是一个巨大的优势。
Epilepsy is a chronic disorder of the brain that affects people in every country of the world.
癫痫是一种脑部慢性疾患，影响到世界上每个国家的人群。
Pomerleau and countless research groups around the world are working with brain scanning devices to map blood flow in the brain.
鲍默劳以及全球无数个研究小组正在致力于研究映射大脑血液流动的脑部扫描设备。
We dream with eyes shut in the dark, disconnected from the outside world. The brain regions responsible for basic sensory perception are deactivated.
当我们梦到自己与世隔绝在黑暗中双眼紧闭时，大脑会关闭负责基本感知的区域。
We're the first people in the world ever to see the brain becoming unconscious, that's quite a sobering thought.
我们是世界上首批亲眼目睹了大脑是如何失去意识的人，这一点光是想想就让人觉得不能等闲视之。
In the Believing Brain, Michael Shermer argues that "belief-dependent realism" makes it hard for any of us to have an objective view of the world.
在《被信任控制的大脑》这本书中，迈克尔·薛莫提出“唯料想依赖症”使任何人都无法用客观公正的眼光看待世界。
Also, you'll notice that the size of the body part represented in the brain does not correspond to the size of the body part in the real world.
而且你会发现，身体部位在大脑中对应的皮层面积大小，与身体部位的实际大小并不一致。
In 1946, the world was introduced to history's first general-purpose electronic computer: ENIAC, nicknamed the "Giant Brain."
1946年，世界上出现了有史以来第一部多用途的电子计算器ENIAC，它有个昵称“巨脑”。
Neuroscience experiments show that belief in invisible entities interacting with the physical world has become the default state of the human brain.
神经学实验表明，坚信无形的实体与现实世界相互作用的信念，早已成为了人类大脑的默认状态。
While this kind of brain and muscle measurement works in lab conditions, the next step-real-world application-will likely be much more difficult technically to arrange.
虽然这种基于大脑和肌肉的衡量手段仍只能在实验室中发生，下一步——实地测试——将会有远比实验室中更困难的技术难题。
In traditional robotics (that is, robotics before 1986), a robot has a central "brain" that builds and maintains a "map" of the world and makes plans based on that map.
在传统的机器人学中(也就是1986年之前的机器人学)，机器人拥有一个中央“大脑”，这个大脑构建并维护环境的“地图”，然后根据地图制定计划。
It's possible that while we sleep, the brain is practicing and running problem-solving drills before completing actions in the real world.
当我们睡梦中，很可能我们的大脑会为现实世界中的行动提前做解决难题的演练。
When you make new connections in the outside world, you make new connections in the inside world-in your brain.
当你在外部世界建立起新的联系的时候，你同时也在自己的内部世界，也就是在你的大脑中建立起新的联系。
The dramatic rise in mobile phone use around the world has prompted concerns about possible harmful effects, including brain tumours.
全世界手机应用的爆发式增长引发人们对手机可能带来的危害的担忧，包括患脑瘤的风险。
“I wasn’t writing about anything in the real world,” Ms. Gordon said. “I was just writing about the language that was thronging in my brain.
我并没有写真实世界里发生的事，我只是写那些出现在我脑海里的文字。
The Michelberger brain trust, all new to the hotel world, has little interest in stereotypical ideas of luxury.
蜜歇旅社初涉酒店业的智囊团对“奢华”这种旧式理念兴味索然。
One could think of Brooks's scheme as having, in his words, "multiple agents within one brain communicating through the world to compete for the resources of the robot's body."
我们可以这样理解布鲁克斯提出的机制——用他的话来说就是，“大脑里的个体们通过外部世界进行沟通来竞争机器人的身体资源。”
But was an extra photopigment all that was needed to evolve trichromatic vision? Or does seeing the world in all its colourful splendour require extra brain power too?
但是是否另一种感光色素必须完全进化成三色视觉？或者要看到世界所有颜色需要特别的脑部功能？
Woman: Yes. Dolphins have a big brain and they are very smart. They are also the fastest swimmers in the world.
女：是的。海豚有一个很大的大脑，它们很聪明。它们还是世界上游泳游得最快的。
I can shut off my brain, sit back and enjoy watching an exciting superhero who always saves the world just in time.
我能够屏蔽我的大脑，坐下来好好欣赏一位令人兴奋的总是在关键时刻拯救世界的超级英雄。
This undergraduate course is an exploration on how stimuli in the world are transformed into neural signals and processed by the brain.
此一大学部课程主要是探讨外界的物理刺激如何被转换成神经讯息并经由大脑处理。
Skin additionally is a huge sensor packed with nerves for keeping the brain in touch with the outside world.
另外，皮肤又是一个巨大的传感器，靠神经系统来保持大脑与外界的联系。
Almost every week, something new pops up in the Internet world and that info has to be transmitted into the brain.
几乎每周都会出现一些新的流行性的流行，而这些信息必须被传递到大脑中去。
But some experts wonder whether it is a good idea to train your brain to ignore conflicting sensory stimuli because it might inhibit your ability to react appropriately in the real world.
但也有部分专家质疑训练大脑去忽视矛盾的感官刺激未必是个好主意，因为这可能会抑制你在现实世界中做出适当反应的能力。
But some experts wonder whether it is a good idea to train your brain to ignore conflicting sensory stimuli because it might inhibit your ability to react appropriately in the real world.
但也有部分专家质疑训练大脑去忽视矛盾的感官刺激未必是个好主意，因为这可能会抑制你在现实世界中做出适当反应的能力。
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