In fact, your brain has more connections in it than there are stars in the universe!
事实上，你的大脑里的连接比宇宙中的繁星都多！
They have filters, and your brain has to interpret the jangled mess it gets fed.
它们带着滤镜，而且大脑会自动诠释那些乱七八糟的信息。
First, we have discovered that your brain has two sides: the left side and the right side.
首先，我们发现你的大脑分成两半儿：左边和右边。
This list represents activities your brain has not yet formed strong neural connections with, they are the complex and novel.
这一列表代表你的大脑还未与之形成牢固的神经联系的活动，它们是复杂而新奇的。
"It's more immersive than, say, a movie because your brain has to fill in all the stuff like when you're reading a book," he said.
他说，“和电影相比之下这样更能让你觉得身临其境，就好比，读书的时候你的大脑里充满的都是那些内容。”
Up to this point your brain has been working through a limited number of connections, all directly related to the problem at hand.
到此刻为止，你的大脑在通过有限数目的连接进行工作。它们(指：连接)都是与当前的问题直接相关。
Number one, you're busy with many other things. Number two, your brain has a capacity limit . And above all, your time: Life is short.
一来你们有好多事要忙，再说你们头脑的容量有限，更何况人生苦短，所以我才鼓励大家都去学英文。
Over the years, your brain has scored up scads of patterns, information that tells you that if one thing happens, something else is likely to follow.
有些人认为有钱就能快乐。这不对。一当你生活富足的时候，更多的钱并不能买到更多的快乐。反过来才是对的。
By moving your body, your brain has to learn new muscle skills, estimate distance and practice balance. Choose a variety of exercises to challenge your brain.
体育运动同时大脑也得到了锻炼。通过肢体运动，大脑也学会了控制肌肉的新技巧，增强了判断距离的能力和保持肢体平衡的技巧。应选择多种运动方式来锻炼大脑。
Every experience, every lesson, every mistake, every success is all stored away and your brain has the capacity to access that information, even though you're not conscious of it.
每一种经历、每一种教训、每一个错误、每一次成功都保存起来，即使你没有感觉到，但你的大脑已经接收了这些信息。
To function efficiently as a writer, 95% of your brain has to teleport off into nowhere, taking its neuroses with it, leaving the confident, playful 5% alone to operate the controls.
一位高效运作的作家，95%的脑细胞要从游荡状态集中到写作上来，专注到神经质的境地，只留下5%信心满满而机智的精力来做控制工作。
You may have heard that you only have a few seconds to make a first impression, but the truth is, your brain has made up its mind about a person within milliseconds of meeting them.
也许你曾听说过，给对方留下第一印象只需短短几秒钟，但事实上是，你的大脑会在遇见他们后的几毫秒内就确定了对一个人的印象。
You may have heard that you only have a few seconds to make a first impression, but the truth is, your brain has made up its mind (so to speak) about a person within milliseconds of meeting them.
也许你曾经听说过你只有短短的几秒钟就能留下第一印象，但事实上是，你的大脑已经在遇见他们后的几毫秒内就决定了(以此去评判)一个人的印象。
If there's enough redundancy in the brain so that even if your right hemisphere got destroyed, your left hemisphere still has all the same memories.
如果大脑有足够冗余，即使你的右半球被破坏了，你的左半球仍然有相同的记忆。
Half of your brain stays alert and prepared for danger when you sleep in a new place, a study has revealed.
一项研究表明，当你在一个陌生的地方睡觉时，你的半边大脑会保持警觉并做好准备防范危险。
Recent research has also shown that indulging in a high-fat and high-sugar diet may have negative effects on your brain, causing learning and memory deficits.
最近的研究还表明，放任于高脂肪、高糖的饮食可能会对你的大脑产生负面影响，导致学习和记忆减退。
Surely everyone reading this has had times when you lie in bed for hours, unable to fall asleep, because your brain is thinking about work.
所有读到这篇文章的人肯定都有过这样的经历：因为脑子在想着工作，躺在床上好几个小时都无法入睡。
Research published in recent years has shown that running changes your brain and mind in some fascinating ways, from increasing your brain function to regulating your emotions.
近年来发表的研究表明，跑步以一些有趣的方式改变了你的大脑和思维，从增强大脑功能到调节情绪。
If your body has one major flaw, this is it: it takes 20 minutes for your stomach to tell your brain that it's had enough.
如果在你的身体里有一个严重的缺陷，那就是：你的胃需要20分钟的时间来告诉你的脑子它已经饱了。
It will be easy to use English, because your brain will only be repeating the things that it has seen many times.
这样用起英语来将会很轻松，因为你的大脑仅仅是将见过很多次的东西重复一下而已。
Your mind is already comfortable with these activities, which lessens the benefit it has on your brain.
你的头脑已经对这些活动感到舒适了，这减少了它对你大脑的益处。
On the other hand, if you write down the idea, a part of you knows that your brain no longer has to keep hold of it, so it’s free to range and roam into new territory.
而另一方面，如果你写下你的想法，大脑也就知道你不需要再记住这部分信息，它则可以腾出更多精力去排列或进入新的领地。
One of the author (Douglas C. Merrill) has a PhD in cognitive science, so this book has a strong emphasis on organizing yourself in a way that matches the way your brain works.
其中一名作者（道格拉斯C默睿）是认知科学的博士，这本书也把重点放在了如何用和你的大脑运作模式相匹配的方法来管理组织你自己。
Then you need the connectivity to your emotional reactions. The right frontal lobe has the ability, because of its connectivity to different brain regions, to actually pull that all together.
由于大脑右前叶连接着大脑的各个区域，因此右脑前叶应具有把这些能力结合在一起的能力。
This has the added benefit of opportunities to observe new people - great fodder for your writers observational brain.
这样给了每个人更多的机会观察他人——对于一个擅于观察的大脑来说绝对是营养丰富的养料。
No matter what your age, mental exercise has a global, positive effect on the brain. So, here are 22 ways to boost your brain power.
无论你的年龄、思维训练对你的大脑有什么综合的、积极的影响，这里有22条途径来提高你的脑力？
A lot of research in psychology has supported the concept of "ego depletion" — that having to restrain yourself wears out your brain and makes it harder to exert self-control over something else.
心理学上的很多研究都支持“自我损耗”的概念，即必须抑制自己消耗你的脑力并使得对其他事运用自制更加困难。
A lot of research in psychology has supported the concept of "ego depletion" — that having to restrain yourself wears out your brain and makes it harder to exert self-control over something else.
心理学上的很多研究都支持“自我损耗”的概念，即必须抑制自己消耗你的脑力并使得对其他事运用自制更加困难。
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