SSS 2009-05-11
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(五)月
This is Scientific American’s 60-second Science, I’m Cynthia Graber. This will just take a minute.
I still tend to move my fingers almost subconsciously 1 when doing arithmetic. Well, that might be not so strange according to research published in the May 8th issue of the journal Science. The report says that math and movement through space use some of the same brain circuitry.
Researchers in France scanned the neural 2 activity in the brains of people who were moving their eyes right or left. Then study participants were asked to do arithmetic in their heads. And the brain scan data correctly showed whether the person was adding or subtracting. Because adding used the same brain circuits as when eyes moved right and subtraction 3 matched up with the neurons firing when eyes moved left.
Researchers say this finding shows that the development of math is too recent and advanced to have a brain region devoted 4 solely 5 to it, so we reuse systems that we already have. The study authors note that “throughout the history of mathematics, concepts of number and space have been tightly intertwined". Now we know that the connection even occurs in our brains. So I don’t feel too bad about still counting on my fingers.
Thanks for the minute for Scientific American’s 60-second Science. I’m Cynthia Graber.
- In choosing a partner we are subconsciously assessing their evolutionary fitness to be a mother of children or father provider and protector. 在选择伴侣的时候，我们会在潜意识里衡量对方将来是否会是称职的母亲或者父亲，是否会是合格的一家之主。
- Lao Yang thought as he subconsciously tightened his grasp on the rifle. 他下意识地攥紧枪把想。 来自汉英文学 - 散文英译
- The neural network can preferably solve the non- linear problem.利用神经网络建模可以较好地解决非线性问题。
- The information transmission in neural system depends on neurotransmitters.信息传递的神经途径有赖于神经递质。
- We do addition and subtraction in arithmetic.在算术里,我们作加减运算。
- They made a subtraction of 50 dollars from my salary.他们从我的薪水里扣除了五十美元。
- He devoted his life to the educational cause of the motherland.他为祖国的教育事业贡献了一生。
- We devoted a lengthy and full discussion to this topic.我们对这个题目进行了长时间的充分讨论。