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FOR MOST OF ITS 100-YEAR HISTORY, NEUROSCIENCE has embraced a central dogma: a mature adult's brain remains a stable, unchanging, computerlike machine with fixed memory and processing power.

神经科学100年历史当中，大多信奉著一个中心思想：成年人脑子是个稳定、不变、如计算机般机器，有著一成不变记忆与资讯处理能力。