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年的历史当中,大多信奉著一个中心思想:成年的脑子是个稳定、不变、如计算机般的机器,有著一成不变的记忆与资讯处理能力。