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08-02-07 20:06 |
来源：http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/02/05/science-games.html
Male video game addiction is neural, study suggests
研究显示，男性对游戏容易成癮是因为神经作用的缘故
Men are more rewarded by video games than women on a neural level, which explains why they're more likely to become addicted to them, researchers at Stanford University claim.
男性比女性在电玩游戏中能得到更多神经层次的成就感，这解释了为什么男性更容易对电玩游戏成癮，史丹佛大学宣告了此研究成果。
The researchers, whose work was recently published online in the Journal of Psychiatric Research, created a video game where a vertical line, or a "wall," divided the middle of the screen. Ten balls would appear at the right of the screen and move toward the wall, and test participants would have to click on them before they hit. If the balls were clicked on before they hit the wall, the player would gain territory; if the player missed, space would be lost.
本研究在近期已被发表於精神人格研究期刊上的网页上，此研究基於一个简单的小型电子游戏，萤幕中有一条中线(墙壁)，一颗球从右边进入，逼近中线，假如能在球触到中线前时点击到，玩家可以增加领域，假如错过则领域将被缩减。
The test subjects — 11 men and 11 women — were told to click on as many balls as possible but were not told that they would win or lose territory.
接受测试的有11名男性与11名女性，他们被告知要尽可能的点击萤幕上的球，但是并没有被告知他们的领域会因此而增减。
All participants quickly figured out the point of the game, but the men wound up gaining significantly more territory than the women because they identified which balls — the ones closest to the wall — would get them the most space.
所有的受试者很快的发现游戏的重点(领域增减)，而男性明显的比女性更快速地增加领域，因为他们辨认出最接近墙壁的球会夺取他们最多的空间。
Males more motivated to win
男人对胜利更有兴趣
"The females 'got,' the game, and they moved the wall in the direction you would expect," said Allan Reiss, who headed up the study, in a statement. "They appeared motivated to succeed at the game. The males were just a lot more motivated to succeed."
「而女性也掌握到游戏的意义并且他们使墙壁依着你所预期的方向移动」，本研究的主要研究员Allan Reiss说，「她们也对贏得游戏有兴趣。而男性则是对於胜利有更大的渴望」
Participants were hooked up to a functional magnetic resonance imaging machine, which produces an image that shows which parts of the brain are working during a given activity. Researchers saw activity in the brain's mesocorticolimbic centre, the region they said is typically associated with reward and addiction.
参加者佩戴核磁共振影像仪，用以显示参与此活动的大脑影像。研究者发现大脑皮层中心的活动跟成就感与成癮性有典型的相关性。
Male brains showed much greater activity, and the amount was proportionate with how much territory they gained, which wasn't the case with women.
男性的脑部显示出较大规模的活动，而其数量和他们得到多少领域成正比，相对来说女性并没有这样的情况。
The scientists also found that three brain structures — the nucleus accumbens, amygdala and orbitofrontal cortex —influenced each other more in men than in women, and the better that circuit was connected, the better the males did in the game.
科学家也发现三个脑部结构：伏隔核、杏仁核、脑前额底部在男性脑部產生更多影响，其脑部联繫越好，男性在游戏中的表现就更好。
"I think it's fair to say that males tend to be more intrinsically territorial," he said. "It doesn't take a genius to figure out who historically are the conquerors and tyrants of our species — they're the males."
「我认为认为男性对领域的侵略性较强是合理的」他说「大部分的人都知道，歷史上的征服者和暴君是男性，并且可以理解箇中原因」 |
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