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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 sl
For many years, people believed that the brain, like the body, rested during sleep. After all, we are rendered unconscious by sl
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2012-02-02
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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.
A temporary memory won’t become an enduring one unless______.
选项
A、it reaches the hippocampus
B、it is captured during sleep time
C、it is transferred to the neocortex
D、it eliminates the memory under it
答案
C
解析
根据题干中的memory和enduring,将本题出处定位在最后一段。最后一段先是讲述了长期记忆形成的过程,其中提到大脑的两个记忆系统:海马体和新皮质。海马体负责记忆新信息和短时记忆。第三句说,如果想要保存某个记忆,这个记忆就必须要从海马体转移到(be shipped)一个它可以长时间存在的地方(where it will endure)——新皮层。[C]中的is transferred对应原文中的be shipped,故答案为[C]。题干中的A temperatory memory和an enduringone来自对原文的理解。
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