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同等学力阅读例文－科普类
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同等学力阅读例文－科普类
一、Mood Music
Seth Horowitz is a neuroscientist who uses Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans of the brain to find how different sounds can trigger activity in the brain. Now he i...
同等学力阅读例文－科普类
一、Mood Music
Seth Horowitz is a neuroscientist who uses Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) scans of the brain to find how different sounds can trigger activity in the brain. Now he is working with a musician to create music incorporating sounds, in the hopes of triggering specific emotional responses.
MRIs have revolutionized brain science because they allow researchers to study what parts of the brain are active at different times. For example, when a person feels angry, an MRI shows there’s new activity in the right frontal cortex of the brain. So neuroscientists can say that the right frontal cortex plays a role in feeling anger. Over the years, neuroscientists have come up with sophisticated maps of brain activity that show exactly what parts of the brain are active when humans feel different emotions.
At the same time as they have been mapping what parts ofthe brain are involved in different emotions, scientists have been bombarding test subjects with sights and sounds to see what parts of the brain get "turned on." Subjects lying in an MRI scanner are played different sounds, or shown different pictures to determine exactly what parts of the brain are activated in response. So using this information, scientists have created maps showing the correlation between brain activity and different emotions and a list of sights and sounds that trigger activity in different parts of the brain.
Horowitz had the idea of combining these two fields of knowledge. He reasoned that if researchers knew activity in a specific area of the brain caused a specific emotional response, and if they knew that a particular stimulus could cause activity in that specific region, then that stimulus could reliably induce that emotion. He says he chose to focus on sound because most researchers have concentrated on the sense of sight.
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Every time you eat sushi you’re most likely eating Japonica rice grown in the Sacramento Valley. It become some of the best in the world and is now satisfying some of the most discriminating rice connoisseurs: Asian markets both abroad and in the States. This region’s rice production has its origin in the California Gold Rush when it became too expensive to import rice from China to feed the large Asian workforce. Today it is a $500 million industry, second only to Thailand in export of premium rice.
Why have farmers in the Sacramento Valley been so successful? First, Mother Nature has provided the perfect growing conditions for Japonica rice: hot days and mild nights, a clay-based soil that holds water at the root of the plant, rather than allowing it to percolate down, and a high quality and plentiful supply of water from nearby rivers and from snow melt from the Sierra mountain range. But most important are the improvements in rice production technology. The California rice industry has invested millions of dollars in new equipment that allows for the production of rice that can compete with rice grown in Japan. These innovations ?many of which originated in Japan ?include a special
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"tasting" machine that measures the chemical and starch composition of each grain and gives each batch of rice a score. This score can then be measured against rice grown anywhere in the world.
In addition to taste, the Japanese market requires rice that is visually appealing: it must be bright white. To meet this standard, Sacramento Valley mills have adopted Japanese polishing methods that make the rice bright white. One milling refinement introduced from Japan is called Kapika, where the rice is actually fine sanded to produce a sparklingly white finish. Another innovative polishing method is called Musenmai, where rice is bathed in hot uncooked tapioca after milling to remove remaining dust or bran.
The California rice industry, in association with U.C. Davis, oversees the development of new and improved Japonica
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