This is the VOA Special English Health Report. In the early nineteen fifties, researchers found that people scored lower on intelligence tests if they spoke more than one language. Research in the sixties found the opposite. So which is it? Researche

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 2011年VOA慢速英语(三)月

Some Birds as Smart as Apes 某些鸟类像猿一样聪明 Using the term bird brain is one way to insult another persons intelligence. That is because a birds brain is small. So, anyone with such a bird-sized brain was thought to be not that intelli

发表于:2019-01-12 / 阅读(66) / 评论(0) 分类 2016年VOA慢速英语(五)月

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: acting like an actor to improve your memory. RS: Our guest is Tony Noice, an actor, director, teacher and cognitive researcher - someone who studies how we think. He and his psych

发表于:2019-01-18 / 阅读(60) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

Topics: Ask an American Bilingual seniors; to keep in store versus to store up versus to reserve in store; which; think about versus think of Words: functional basis advantage to activate cognitive control efficiently senior bilingual magnitude subje

发表于:2019-01-22 / 阅读(68) / 评论(0) 分类 美语听力 English Cafe

Norman Swan: Hello, and welcome to the Health Report with me, Norman Swan. Today, your heart and your genes. Most people think of congenital heart disease as heart abnormalities which affect babies. But in fact it's a bigger problem for adults and ma

发表于:2019-01-24 / 阅读(39) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on Wordmaster: acting like an actor to improve your memory. RS: Our guest is Tony Noice, an actor, director, teacher and cognitive researcher - someone who studies how we think. He and his psych

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Business. 商业。 Recruitment. 人才招聘。 Work and play. 工作兼娱乐。 The gamification of hiring. 招聘游戏化。 THE rules of Happy Hour are deceptively simple. You are a bartender. Your challenge is to tell what sort of drink each o

发表于:2019-01-26 / 阅读(62) / 评论(0) 分类 经济学人商业系列

Today, many of Terman's ideas remain central to the way we think about success. 现在,特曼的许多观点依旧左右着我们对成功的判断。 Schools have programs for the gifted. 学校存在很多专为天才设计的科目, Elite univ

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The rise of mobile phones has been blamed for a number of social ills, but your smart phone may also be making you physically sick as well. 移动电话的广泛使用被指引发了诸多社会弊端,不仅如此,手中的智能机也会让你觉得

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(59) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

For computer scientists, creation of neuromorphic systems those inspired by and modeled after the way neurons in the human brain are structured has been a longstanding goal. 对计算机科学家而言,建立仿神经形态体系一直是一个长期

发表于:2019-02-04 / 阅读(50) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

WASHINGTON -- An overwhelming majority of US blacks say the verdict of George Zimmerman was wrong, while a majority of whites say the verdict was right, a Gallup poll showed Monday. The poll found, an overwhelming 85 percent of blacks say the verdict

发表于:2019-02-05 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 英语新闻

While Popeye ate spinach everyday to maintain strong muscles, he was also bettering his memory, maybe without even knowing it. 大力水手每天吃菠菜增强肌肉,不过有一点他可能没注意到就是他的记忆力也增强了。 Consumin

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AA: I'm Avi Arditti with Rosanne Skirble, and this week on WORDMASTER: more of our discussion of gesture language. RS: We don't mean formal sign language taught to deaf people, but the way we use our hands either with spoken language or in place of i

发表于:2019-02-14 / 阅读(54) / 评论(0) 分类 英语单词大师-Word Master

睡眠不足 You're Forgetful Or Unfocused 健忘或注意力差 You might be tempted to blame your trouble focusing on your age or stress or your overflowing email in box, but a lack of sleep could be the true culprit. Too few hours in dreamland has

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(41) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

DAVID GREENE, HOST: Police departments and community groups are always looking for ways to reduce crime. Much of the time though their success is not measured scientifically, so we don't really know what works and what doesn't. Well, at the Universit

发表于:2019-02-16 / 阅读(72) / 评论(0) 分类 英语语言学习

Children's Numerical Skills People appear to be born to compute. The numerical skills of children develop so early and so inexorably that it is easy to imagine an internal clock of mathematical maturity guiding their growth. Not long after learning t

发表于:2019-02-17 / 阅读(125) / 评论(0) 分类 双语有声阅读

While Popeye ate spinach everyday to maintain strong muscles, he was also bettering his memory, maybe without even knowing it. 大力水手波派每天吃菠菜保持肌肉力量,同时也增强了他的记忆力,他自己可能还不知道呢。

发表于:2019-02-18 / 阅读(64) / 评论(0) 分类 阅读空间

本篇阅读材料自言自语其实没那么可怕选自《时代》(原文标题:Talking to Yourself: Not So Crazy After All 2012.5.23)How and when you self-talk can increase your concentration and improve performance. 推荐信息 愚人节恶

发表于:2019-03-02 / 阅读(81) / 评论(0) 分类 大学四六级阅读

ways to improve your alertness and cognitive function in the morning. 早晨提高你的警觉性及认知能力 Be physically active Physical activity in the morning can also help to increase your mental performance and make you more alert, as it in

发表于:2019-03-06 / 阅读(114) / 评论(0) 分类 英语听力广播—Listening

ways to improve your alertness and cognitive function in the morning. 早晨提高你的警觉性及认知能力 Listen to music 听音乐 Finally, the team suggests listening to music when you first get up. Music can cause the pupils to dilate and i

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