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Feeling spooked? It's just your brain
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鬼是不存在的。當(dāng)一個(gè)人覺得身邊有鬼的時(shí)候那都是大腦在捉弄你。這是科學(xué)家對大腦研究后得出的結(jié)論。他們已經(jīng)成功鑒別出大腦中用來處理每個(gè)人周圍空間的部分。這一研究報(bào)告發(fā)表在《當(dāng)代生物學(xué)》雜志上。以下是 BBC 記者 Rebecca Morelle 發(fā)來的報(bào)道:
The feeling of a ghostly presence – that spooky sensation that someone is close-by when no-one is there - has often been reported by mountaineers, explorers and many others. But according to this study, the mystery lies in the parts of the brain that help us perceive our body’s position in space.
When scientists interfered with signals in these neural regions, blindfolded volunteers reported sensing up to four ghosts in the room.
The team believes the brain is getting confused, miscalculating the body’s position and identifying it as belonging to someone else.
Glossary 詞匯表 （點(diǎn)擊單詞收聽發(fā)音）
- ghostly presence見鬼了
- spooky令人毛骨悚然的
- mountaineers登山者，登山運(yùn)動員
- perceive發(fā)覺，察覺
- interfered妨礙了，干擾了
- neural regions神經(jīng)區(qū)域
- miscalculating(對某事)判斷錯(cuò)誤
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