The ego is responsible for the higher cognitive functions such as intelligence, thoughtfulness and learning.

自我意识是产生诸如智能、体贴和学习等较高层次认知功能的原因。

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Studies of a variety of higher cognitive functions consistently activate a region of anterior cingulate cortex(ACC).

前扣带回在多种任务中的普遍激活使它成为当前认知控制研究的一个热点。

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Specifically, the frontal lobes, which are the seat in modern humans of higher cognitive functions such as abstract reasoning.

特别是大脑前庭部分，它使现代人具有较高的认知能力—例如抽象推理的能力。

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And there's also,of course,in each one of our cases, there's these higher mental cognitive functions that I've been calling the person functioning, there's the B-functions and there's the P-functions.

当然对我们来说，还有更高级的精神上的认知功能,我称之为人格功能，所以就有生理功能和人格功能。

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One pertinent observation is that dolphins, whales and their kind have brains as anatomically complex as those of humans, and that these brains contain a particular type of nerve cell, known as a spindle cell, that in humans is associated with higher cognitive functions such as abstract reasoning.

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