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This is Scientific American's 60-second Science, I'mSteve Mirsky.
這裡是科學美國人——60秒科學系列，我是史蒂夫·米爾斯基。
"Clearly, technology is helping us research the brain, but how is the brain responding to technology?"NYU neuroscientist Alexandra Ochoa Cohen. “
顯然，技術正在幫助我們研究大腦，那大腦對技術作何反應？”紐約大學神經系統科學家亞歷山德拉·奧喬亞·科恩說到。
"There's been a lot of mostly negative hype around this issue, often referred to as screen time, and how it's ruining all of our lives. And while there've been a few studies that have examined these questions, the truth is that everything we encounter changes our brains. And we just don't have the data right now to say how meaningful these changes actually are."
“圍繞這個問題有很多負面宣傳，通常會提到屏幕時間以及它如何毀掉我們所有人的生活。雖然有一些研究對這些問題進行了調查，但事實是，我們遇到的每件事都會改變我們的大腦。只不過目前我們還沒有數據能說明這些改變到底有多大意義。”
Cohen spoke March 21st, at the Cooper Union in Manhattan, during a discussion called OurBrain on A.I. (Artificial Intelligence): Who's In Control, Me or the Machine? "In fact, a recent study examining over 350,000 adolescents found a small but negative association with technology use and well-being, but they also found similar relationships between eating potatoes and wearing eyeglasses and well-being. And yet we don't ask if potatoes and eyeglasses have destroyed a generation."
3月21日，科恩在曼哈頓庫伯聯盟學院舉行的“我們的大腦與人工智能：誰在控制，人類還是機器？”的討論上發表了講話。“事實上，最近一項對超過35萬名青少年進行的研究發現，技術使用和幸福感之間存在雖小但負面的聯繫，但他們同時發現，吃土豆和戴眼鏡與幸福感之間也存在類似的關聯。但我們不會問土豆和眼鏡是否毀了一代人。”
That study, titled "The association between adolescent well-being and digital technology use," appeared this January in the journal Nature Human Behaviour."Part of the issue in studying how technology influences our brain is that there are so many different forms of technology that often all get lumped into one category. So how we use technology, what specific technology we use, and what we use it for will be important variables to define in future research."
這項研究名為“青少年幸福感與數字技術使用的關聯”，發表在《自然·人類行為》今年1月刊上。“就技術如何影響我們大腦的研究來說，其部分問題在於，有太多不同形式的技術常常被歸為一類。因此，我們如何使用技術、我們使用哪種特定技術以及我們使用這一技術的目的，將成為定義未來研究的重要變量。”
"And even as we do more and better research on these topics, the answer is still likely to be that it's complicated. In a way, we're all part of a massive experiment on how technology is influencing our brains, and there will almost certainly be both positive and negative outcomes. “
即使我們對這些問題進行了更多更好的研究，答案可能仍然很複雜。在某種程度上，我們都是技術如何影響我們大腦的大規模實驗的一部分，而且幾乎肯定會產生正面和負面兩種結果。
So studies that tracking individuals' behavioral and brain development over time will be particularly important. Like the ABCD, or Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study, which is currently following over 10,000 kids for 10 years. And this kind of research will be especially important in helping us to figure out what lasting influences technology has on ourbrains."
因此，追蹤個人行為和大腦發展隨時間發展的研究將尤為重要。就像ABCD，即青少年大腦和認知發展研究，這項研究目前對1萬餘名兒童進行了10年的追蹤調查。就瞭解技術對我們大腦的持久影響而言，這類研究將提供極為重要的幫助。”
For Scientific American — 60-Second Science. I'm Steve Mirsky.
謝謝大家收聽科學美國人——60秒科學。我是史蒂夫·米爾斯基。
重點單詞：
well-being n. 幸福;生活安寧;福利;健康
respond to v.回答；響應；反應；反應靈敏
get lumped into 混為一談為，註冊集中到
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