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Vegetative patients ’still learn’ 植物人還是能學習
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Patients with severe brain damage who do not appear to have signs of consciousness still seem able to learn, a Cambridge University study suggests.
一項劍橋大學的研究顯示，腦部嚴重受創、看來沒有知覺跡象的病患，似乎還是可以學習。
Researchers tested for Pavlovian-like responses in 22 people in a persistent vegetative state by playing a noise prior to a puff of air to the eye. Some subjects learnt to anticipate the puff of air causing the eye muscles to twitch, Nature Neuroscience reported.
自然神經科學期刊報導，研究人員先對22名處於持續性植物人狀態的病患發出聲音，再對著他們的眼睛噴氣，來測試這些病患是否會有巴普洛夫式反應。部分病患學到預期會有噴氣，會抽動眼部肌肉。
Pavlovian
新聞辭典
vegetative：形容詞，植物人狀態的。
puff：名詞，一陣，一股。例句： Sean blew a puff of smoke at his reflection in the mirror.
（史恩對著鏡子裡的自己吐了一口菸。）
twitch：動詞，抽動、使勁拉。例句：He tried to suppress a smile but felt the corner of his mouth twitch.（他試著要壓抑微笑，但還是感覺到嘴角動了一下。）
Bat
At evening, sitting on this terrace,
When the sun from the west, beyond Pisa, beyond the mountains of Carrara
Departs, and the world is taken by surprise ...
When the tired flower of Florence is in gloom beneath the glowing
Brown hills surrounding ...
When under the arches of the Ponte Vecchio
A green light enters against stream, flush from the west,
Against the current of obscure Arno ...
Look up, and you see things flying
Between the day and the night;
Swallows with spools of dark thread sewing the shadows together.
A circle swoop, and a quick parabola under the bridge arches
Where light pushes through;
A sudden turning upon itself of a thing in the air.
A dip to the water.
And you think:
"The swallows are flying so late!"
Swallows?
Dark air-life looping
Yet missing the pure loop ...
A twitch, a twitter, an elastic shudder in flight
And serrated wings against the sky,
Like a glove, a black glove thrown up at the light,
And falling back.
Never swallows!
Bats!
The swallows are gone.
At a wavering instant the swallows gave way to bats
By the Ponte Vecchio ...
Changing guard.
Bats, and an uneasy creeping in one's scalp
As the bats swoop overhead!
Flying madly.
Pipistrello!
Black piper on an infinitesimal pipe.
Little lumps that fly in air and have voices indefinite, wildly vindictive;
Wings like bits of umbrella.
Bats!
Creatures that hang themselves up like an old rag, to sleep;
And disgustingly upside down.
Hanging upside down like rows of disgusting old rags
And grinning in their sleep.
Bats!
In China the bat is symbol for happiness.
Not for me!
一些史地的注解.
http://hcplace.blogspot.tw/2008/12/florence.html
twitch
v., twitched, twitch·ing, twitch·es. v.tr.
To draw, pull, or move suddenly and sharply; jerk: I twitched my fishing line.
v.intr.
- To move jerkily or spasmodically. See synonyms at jerk1.
- To ache sharply from time to time; twinge.
- A sudden involuntary or spasmodic muscular movement: a twitch of the eye.
- A sudden pulling; a tug: The fish gave my line a twitch.
- A looped cord used to restrain a horse by tightening it around the animal's upper lip.
[Middle English twicchen, possibly akin to Low German twikken.]
twitchingly twitch'ing·ly adv.twitch
Pronunciation: /twɪtʃ/
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noun
Origin:
Middle English: of Germanic origin; related to Old English twiccian 'to pluck, pull sharply'parabolic
Line breaks: para|bol¦ic
Pronunciation: /ˌparəˈbɒlɪk
/
ADJECTIVE
Origin
late Middle English: via late Latin from Greekparabolikos, from parabolē 'application' (see parabola).
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