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三名英國研究人員獲得瞭一項價值一百萬歐元的獎項。每年，這個獎項會頒給“對歐洲腦神經科學研究作出傑出貢獻”的人。以下是 David Shuman 對這三名研究人員突破性研究發現的報道。
How the brain actually holds memories was for years something that was too difficult to understand.
But scientists then realised than one part of it, called the hippocampus, plays the crucial role. Inside it there are billions of connections between the brain cells. And when those links becomes stronger, that’s the key mechanism allowing us to remember.
So, one crucial discovery is that the brain can change: creating new connections, and breaking them.
Another is that faults with this process can be linked to conditions including depression, autism, addiction and Alzheimer’s.
詞匯表
hippocampus 海馬體
mechanism 機制
depression 抑鬱，憂傷
autism 自閉癥，孤獨癥
addiction 嗜好，癮
Alzheimer’s 阿爾茨海默病
測驗
請聽報道並回答下列問題。
1. What is the most important process through which we remember things?
2. True or false: For years, scientists found it too difficult to remember how the brain worked.
3. Which word means ‘stores’ or ‘keeps’ here?
4. How are illnesses such as depression connected to how we form memories?
答案
1. What is the most important process through which we remember things?
The key mechanism is through the strengthening of links between brain cells in the hippocampus.
2. True or false: For years, scientists found it too difficult to remember how the brain worked.
False. Scientists found it difficult to understand, not to remember.
3. Which word means ‘stores’ or ‘keeps’ here?
Holds. “How the brain actually holds memories…” means the same as “How the brain actually stores memories…”
4. How are illnesses such as depression connected to how we form memories?
Illnesses such as depression are linked to problems in the memory-forming process.
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