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The scientist in charge, Professor Donald Hebb, was surprised by the results.
研究負責人唐納德·赫布教授對結果感到驚訝。
Sensory deprivation really is a way of producing extreme monotony.
感官剝奪的確能使大腦感到極度單調。
It's apparently a horrible experience, getting worse and worse.
顯然這種感覺很可怕，而且只會越來越糟。
Some of our subjects talked about cruelty.
有些受試者說這是酷刑。
What they said was that the degree of boredom became intolerable and was,
他們說這種極度乏味最終會變得難以忍受，
one subject said, as bad as anything that Hitler had ever done to any of his sub to his victims.
其中一個人說，這比希特勒的迫害手段有過之而無不及。
The scientists had discovered that the human brain needed constant stimulation for its healthy functioning.
科學家們發現，人的大腦需要持續接受刺激才能健康運行。
However, the experiments were considered too cruel and were closed down.
然而由于實驗被認為過于殘酷而最后被終止。
But since then, there have been 40 years of scientific advance.
但自那以后，科學已經發展了40個年頭。
Knowledge of the brain has moved on enormously.
人們對大腦的認識已今非昔比。
During Hebb's period, we know very little about what was going on inside the brain.
在赫布的時代，我們對人腦的運作知之甚少。
The only way you could visualise the brain itself involved very invasive processes.
直接觀察大腦的唯一途徑是借助外科手術。
Now we have things like CAT scans, MRI scans, PET scans.
現在有Ct，核磁共振和Pet掃描。
They allow us to know a lot more about what's going on inside the brain
我們因此能了解大腦內部運作的更多情況，
and about the functional relationship between different parts of the brain.
以及大腦不同區域之間的功能聯系。
