Brain Games|脑力大挑战

Brain Games

by Marcus Maurice

Are you ready to have your mind blown?

　　The brain is just like a muscle in the body, so it needs a lot of exercise to keep performing at its peak. This three-and–a-half-pound ball of tissue is essential because it enables people to focus and make decisions and it creates unique individuals. This month on National Geographic Channel (NGC), Brain Games gives viewers a workout by filling each episode with interactive experiments that are designed to stimulate and reveal the inner workings of the mind.

　　People naturally assume that life is exactly how they see it through their own eyes, but that is not always the case. This fact can be illustrated through optical illusions. When people look at and experience such visual trickery, they think the brain is being fooled and that it must be misfiring somehow. As a matter of fact, the opposite is true. The brain is filling in the parts that people don't see and completing the images on a three-dimensional level. In Brain Games: Illusion Confusion, hosts Jason Silva and Apollo Robbins put viewers' minds to the test with an intricate set of illusions to show how easy it is to manipulate11 the brain.

　　Some people say that the sexes are miles away in their thinking, which is why the saying men are from Mars and women are from Venus came about. In Brain Games: Battle of the Sexes, see how the genetic flip of a coin at birth plays a huge role in everyday life. Couples go head-to-head and brain-to-brain on a series of experiments so that viewers can find out which gender is wired better for what tasks. This month, cultivate your intelligence with NGC's Brain Games.

 

脑力大挑战

你准备好要探索你的大脑了吗?

　　大脑就象是体内所有的肌肉一样，所以需要多方锻鍊才能让它保持在巅峰状态。这颗重达三磅半的球体组织是不可或缺的，因为它能让我们集中注意力、作出决定还有创造出每个独特的个体。这个月的《国家地理频道――脑力大挑战》透过每一集里和观众的互动实验来锻鍊各位的大脑，这些实验旨在刺激大脑内部的运作以及揭露其运作方式。

　　人们很自然地会认为生命就是透过自己眼睛所看到的那样，但情况并非总是如此。这项事实可透过视觉所产生的错觉来作解释。人们看到以及经历这样的视觉骗局时，他们会认为是大脑被愚弄了，也认为大脑一定是不知怎么出了毛病。事实上，恰恰相反。大脑里有许多人们看不见的部份，会在脑内形成 3D 的立体图像。在《脑力大挑战――Illusion Confusion》中，主持人杰森．席瓦和阿波罗．罗宾斯让观众的心智接受一套复杂的幻觉测试，来显示大脑究竟容不容易被操控。

　　有些人表示，性别不同，想法也差很多，这就是为什么会有男人来自火星，而女人来自于金星（编按：意指『男女大不同』）的这种说法。在《脑力大挑战――Battle of the Sexes》里，看看出生时的性别在日常生活中扮演了多么重要的角色。许多对夫妻将会接受一系列一对一的大脑实验，好让观众能够了解两性之间各有何特长。这个月与《国家地理频道――脑力大挑战》一起来培养你的脑力吧。