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For many years, people believed that the brain, like the body, rested during
For many years, people believed that the brain, like the body, rested during
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For many years, people believed that the brain, like the body, rested during sleep. After all, we are rendered unconscious by sleep. Perhaps, it was thought, the brain just needs to stop thinking for a few hours every day. Wrong. During sleep, our brain -- the organ that directs us to sleep -- is itself extraordinarily active. And much of that activity helps the brain to learn, to remember and to make connections.
It wasn’t so long ago that the regretful joke in research circles was that everyone knew sleep had something to do with memory -- except for the people who study sleep and the people who study memory. Then, in 1994, Israeli researchers reported that the average performance for a group of people on a memory test improved when the test was repeated after a break of many hours -- during which some subjects slept and others did not. In 2000, a Harvard team demonstrated that this improvement occurred only during sleep.
There are several different types of memory -- including declarative (fact-based information), episodic (events from your life) and procedural (how to do something) -- and researchers have designed ways to test each of them. In almost every case, whether the test involves remembering pairs of words, tapping numbered keys in a certain order or figuring out the rules in a weather- prediction game, "sleeping on it" after first learning the task improves performance. It’s as if our brains squeeze in some extra practice time while we’re asleep.
This isn’t to say that we can’t form memories when we’re awake. If someone tells you his name, you don’t need to fall asleep to remember it. But sleep will make it more likely that you do. Sleep-deprivation experiments have shown that a tired brain has a difficult time capturing memories of all sorts. Interestingly, sleep deprivation is more likely to cause us to forget information associated with positive emotion than information linked to negative emotion. This could explain, at least in part, why sleep deprivation can trigger depression in some people: memories stained with negative emotions are more likely than positive ones to "stick" in the sleep-deprived brain. Sleep also seems to be the time when the brain’s two memory systems -- the hippocampus (海马体) and the neocortex (新皮质) -- "talk" with one other. Experiences that become memories are laid down first in the hippocampus, eliminating whatever is underneath. If a memory is to be retained, it must be shipped from the hippocampus to a place where it will endure -- the neocortex, the wrinkled outer layer of the brain where higher thinking takes place. Unlike the hippocampus, the neocortex is a master at weaving the old with the new. And partly because it keeps incoming information at bay, sleep is the best time for the "undistracted" hippocampus to shuttle memories to the neocortex, and for the neocortex to link them to related memories. [br] What do we know about the brain from the first paragraph?
选项
A、It works much busily during sleep.
B、It rests during sleep just like the body.
C、It keeps us subconscious during sleep.
D、It needs to stop working for hours every day.
答案
A
解析
根据题干中的from the first paragraph将本题出处直接定位在第一段。该段最后两句中说,在睡眠的时候大脑是异常活跃的,所以[A]“睡眠时,大脑工作非常忙”正确。原文先是介绍了人们持有的一个常识性错误观念:大脑在人睡觉的时候也在休息,因为它也需要每天停止工作几个小时。第四句用一个单词Wrong直截了当地表明,这种观念是错误的,排除[B]和[D]。
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