SSS 2010-11-03
时间：2019-01-08 作者：英语课 分类：Scientific American(十一)月
This is Scientific American’s 60-Second Science. I’m Karen Hopkin. This will just take a minute.
Maybe your dad said, “The harder you work for something, the more you’ll appreciate it.” Well, father really did know best, because a new study finds that the harder mice have to work for a treat, the better it tastes. The research appears in the Proceedings 1 of the Royal Society.
Mice were trained to push levers to get either of two rewards. Press one lever, out comes a drop of sugar water. Press the other and they get a drop of different tasting sugar water.
Then things got interesting. For one of the treats, scientists gradually increased the amount of effort required for the payoff—from one lever-press to five, then 10, then 15. So by the end of the session, one type of sugar water cost 15 times more effort than the other.
The mice then retired 2 to their home cage where both treats were freely available. And they showed a strong preference for whichever reward they’d worked harder to obtain. Based on how fast the mice sipped 3, they appeared to find the costlier 4 sugar water more tasty, which makes evolutionary 5 sense. An animal wouldn’t survive if a little hard work left a bitter taste in its mouth.
Thanks for the minute. For Scientific American’s 60-Second Science, I’m Karen Hopkin.
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- to initiate legal proceedings against sb 对某人提起诉讼
- The old man retired to the country for rest.这位老人下乡休息去了。
- Many retired people take up gardening as a hobby.许多退休的人都以从事园艺为嗜好。
- He sipped his coffee pleasurably. 他怡然地品味着咖啡。
- I sipped the hot chocolate she had made. 我小口喝着她调制的巧克力热饮。 来自辞典例句
- Alligator skin is five times more costlier than leather. 鳄鱼皮比通常的皮革要贵5倍。 来自互联网
- Disagreements among creditors can be costlier still. 债权人之间的分歧会加大重组的费用。 来自互联网
- Life has its own evolutionary process.生命有其自身的进化过程。
- These are fascinating questions to be resolved by the evolutionary studies of plants.这些十分吸引人的问题将在研究植物进化过程中得以解决。