实验参与者被要求在影片中寻找人物或者交通工具。寻找人物的时候,脑部的若干区域会变为一台“人物探测器”,也就是对于人物更加敏感而对交通工具较不敏感。寻找交通工具则使脑部更像一台“交通工具探测器”。当人们在搜寻人物时,大脑也对相关的事物更为敏感,比如猫咪和植物。而搜寻交通工具时,大脑则对钟表和建筑物更为敏感。
In fact, the response patterns of most brain areas changed when people changed the focus of their attention. Something as ineffable as where you focus your attention can make your whole brain work differently.
事实上,大多数脑部区域的反应机制随着人们注意力的转移而改变。人的注意力集中在不同地方,整个大脑的运行方式也就不同。
People often assume that knowing about the brain is all that you need to explain how the mind works, so that neuroscience will replace psychology. That may account for the curious popular enthusiasm for the phrenological 'lighting up' studies. It is as if the very thought that something psychological is 'in the brain' gives us a little explanatory frisson, even though we have known for at least a century that everything psychological is 'in the brain' in some sense. But it would be just as accurate to say that knowing about the mind explains how the brain works.
人们常常理所当然地认为了解了大脑就能够解释心理活动,所以神经学将会取代心理学。这一点可以解释人们对于颅相学“激活”理论的好奇和热情。尽管从某种程度上来说,人们早在一个多世纪前就已经了解到所有心理活动都“存在于脑海里”,但这一说法仍旧无法解释清楚问题。而较为准确的说法是,了解了心理就能解释大脑如何运转。
【了解大脑如何运转,保证更加健康生活】相关文章:
最新
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15
2020-09-15