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Remember your kindergarten classroom?
還對你的幼兒園教室記憶猶新嗎？
The maps on the wall, the charts of the seasons on bulletin boards, the alphabet over the blackboard?
墻上懸掛的地圖，布告欄上的每個季度的課表，還有黑板上的字母表？
I know I spent hours staring at the brightly colored decorations—and not listening to what my teacher was saying.
我記得自己曾花數(shù)小時盯著這些明亮顏色的裝飾圖案—但老師講的一句話也沒聽進(jìn)去。
Maybe you did, too.
或許你也有同感。
And it looks like we're not alone.
并且好像不只是你和我這樣。
The more decorations in a classroom, the more distracted students may be.
教室里面裝飾越多，學(xué)生們或許就越容易分心。
So finds a study in the journal Psychological Science.
這是發(fā)表在《心理學(xué)科學(xué)》雜志上一項(xiàng)研究得出的結(jié)論。
Researchers observed five-year-olds in highly decorated classrooms and in classrooms that were relatively bare.
研究人員們分別對精心及相對簡單布置的教室中的5歲兒童進(jìn)行了觀察。
And the kids were less able to hold their focus, spent more time off-task and had smaller learning gains in the busy rooms than in the bare rooms.
精心布置教室中的孩子們并沒有將注意力全部放在學(xué)習(xí)上，更容易走神兒，記住的知識也沒在相對簡單環(huán)境的教室中的孩子們多。
At that young age, attention regulation skills aren't fully formed.
在年幼時，掌控注意力的技能還不甚完善。
And yet it's at that stage of development that children find themselves surrounded by decorations irrelevant to what they're learning at any given time.
然而也正是那個階段，孩子們發(fā)現(xiàn)自己處于一間布置精美的教室中，但卻和所要學(xué)習(xí)的知識完全無關(guān)。
The researchers are not prescribing a change from busy to bare rooms.
研究人員并沒有表明精心布置的教室需要改變。
They say there is more research to be done.
還需要更多的相關(guān)研究證明。
But this study, along with previous work, suggests that the visual environment can affect how young children learn their reading, writing and rithmetic.
但這項(xiàng)研究，以及之前的相關(guān)研究工作，都建議視覺環(huán)境能夠?qū)τ變旱拈喿x，寫作以及算術(shù)等基本能力產(chǎn)生影響。
