1. The future? Bosses could measure brain activity to learn worker quality.
    那么未来会是个什么样子呢？老板可以通过测量大脑活动情况来了解工人的素质。

2. There was a sudden drop in activity in the left side of the brain — the side most involved in language — and an exaggerated reaction on the right, the side strongest at thinking about the location of objects.
    他们的左半脑 -- 与语言能力相关的那一半 -- 的活动急剧下降，而右半脑，擅长思考物体方位的那一半，却做出强烈的反应。

3. The only explanation she has is that male brains have a tendency to become more divided during development, with different functions located on one side of the brain or the other.
    惟一的解释就是：男性的大脑在发育过程中有分工更明确的趋势，大脑的两半球各有不同的功能。

4. The force of habit — literally the established wiring of your brain — will pull you away from practicing these skills.
    习惯的力量——严格说就是头脑里已建立的思维方式——会妨碍你操练这些技能。

5. The body has about a hundred billion nerve cells, and every experience triggers a brain response that literally shapes our senses.
    人体有大约1,000亿个神经细胞，每一次经历都会激发脑部的反应，而这种反应实际上影响着我们的感知。

6. The mind, we now know, is not confined to the brain but is distributed throughout the body's universe of cells.
    我们现在知道，思想活动并不局限在脑部，而是遍布全身范围的细胞中。

7. That done, we are "biologically wired" with what one of the nation's leading brain researchers calls our own "world view".
    完成了这一变化，正如国内一位重要的大脑研究人员所说，我们"对外界的看法"就"在生理上定型了"。

8. He could predict their performance from the strength of the brain's electrical activity measured through the head.
    通过所测量到的他们头部脑电波活动的强度，他能够预测他们的成绩。

9. His studies with rats have demonstrated two primary effects of activity: vigorous physical exercise provides the brain with more fuel, and skill-based exercise increases the formation of connections in the brain, which, according to the proposals of
    他对老鼠的研究已经表明运动具有两大功效：强力体育运动给大脑提供更多的燃料，而技巧性的运动则增强大脑神经的联结。依照某些科学家的见解，这种联结能使大脑更好地处理信息。

10. Human studies have focused primarily on older adults and suggest that regular exercise can improve the speed with which the brain processes information.
    对人类的研究主要集中在老年人身上，其结果表明，经常锻炼能提高大脑处理信息的速度。