Peak 8.3 读书笔记

一 words ＆ expressions

1.The resulting memory and navigational skills are short of astonishing, and so London taxi drivers have proved irresistible to psychologists.

resulting:caused by the event or situation which you have just mentioned因而发生的；作为结果的

例句：The tape was left near a magnetic source, and the resulting damage was considerable.

造句：He murdered a man, and the resulting expense was in jail.

irresistible:impossible to refuse, oppose or avoid because too pleasant, attractive or strong不可抗拒的，无法抵挡的

造句：These crests everywhere when combined with the City of London's age and wealth and quasi-independent status make it an irresistible temptation for conspiracy nuts.

2. There is a growing body of evidence that both the structure and the fuction of the brain change in response to various sorts of mental training.

body of :a large amount or mass of something, especially something that has been collected大量的某物   

body of knowledge/evidence/opinion etc

造句：There is a growing body of evidence that crime rate is on the rise.

3. unfathomable memory and processing power, can only vaguely approximate.

unfathomable:too strange or mysterious to be understood莫测高深的，难以理解的

例句：For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen.

造句：It will signal what is left after the hubris of Iraq and unfathomable complexities of Afghanistan.

二 thoughts＆summary＆background information

大脑的可塑性

大脑可塑性的来源

2007年，法国医生在为一名44岁法国男子的脑部做CT和核磁共振扫描后惊讶地发现，其脑室里充满了脑脊液，原本正常的脑组织由于受挤压薄得像一张纸。令人吃惊的是，这位“几乎没有大脑”的患者智商竟有75，不仅像正常人一样娶妻生子，甚至还干着政府公务员的差事。7月19日，英国著名医学权威杂志《柳叶刀》率先刊登了这起罕见病例之后，国际医学界为之震惊。

弗利叶医生指出：“这个案例足以说明，脑组织可塑性非常大，在适当情况下，能够自动适应出生前或出生后的脑损伤。”来自美国马里兰州“国家人类基因组研究协会”的小儿脑部缺损科医生马克斯·明克表示：“令我感到非常惊讶的是，该患者的脑组织是如何做到与我们一般认为不可能相容的事物（脑积水）和谐共处的。也许经过数十年的缓慢变化，其大脑里的其他部分已经替代那些本应该存在的脑组织，并正常地发挥功能。”

第二章通过伦敦司机的那个例子说明：大脑的海马体hippocampus会随着你的练习而增大。

visual cortex视表层的例子也说明我们通过练习来改变大脑结构，提高相关的