当研究小组把16个小电极组成的小格，两枚纽扣大小，放在癫痫病人的大脑语言中枢时，实验出现了突破。

The experimental breakthrough came when the team attached two button sized grids of 16 tiny electrodes to the speech centres of the brain of an epileptic patient.

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犹他大学的研究小组将带有极小的微电极的网格入置于一名患有严重癫痫的志愿者的大脑语言中枢。

The University of Utah research team placed grids of tiny microelectrodes over speech centers in the brain of a volunteer with severe epileptic seizures.

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他们发现，大脑中一个叫做布罗卡区（就是大家熟知大脑语言中枢）的地方在我们听到或者进行谈话的时候都会异常活跃。

They found that specific parts of the brain region known as Broca’s area (a well-known speech center in the brain) are active both when listening to and when producing lilted speech.

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