时差N小时:男人和电子游戏 Video games-a guy thing

Don:It's time once again to go to the A Moment ofScience Mailbag.

唐:又到了科学一刻的来信互动环节。

Yael:A listener writers in:

雅埃尔:一位听众这样写道:

Dear AMOS:

亲爱的《科学一刻》栏目组:

Why does it seem like guys are into video games waymore than women?

为什么看起来男人比女人更倾向于电子游戏?

Is there a scientific explanation for this?

这其中有科学解释吗?

DON:Great question.

唐:问的好。

And in fact there is some scientific research that tries to explain why video games seem to be aguy thing.

事实上有一些科学研究试图解释为什么电子游戏似乎是男人的菜。

YAEL:Fumiko Hoeft, a researcher at Stanford, got eleven men and eleven women to play avideo game while lying inside an MRI scanner.

雅埃尔:斯坦福大学研究员福米珂·霍夫特让接受测试的11个男人和11女人躺在核磁共振扫描仪玩电子游戏。

That's a machine that can take detailed pictures of what's happening inside the body.

这种机器可以记录下体内所发生变化的详细图片。

DON:Now, the game the participants played was simple:it consisted only of clicking balls tokeep them from hitting a wall at the center of a computer screen.

唐:现在,参与者们玩的游戏其实很简单:点击小球并且不能撞到在电脑屏幕中心的一堵墙上。

The players soon learned that the faster they clicked, the more territory they gained.

玩家们很快发现他们点击的速度越快,就会获得更多的领土。What the MRI scan showed was thatthe player's brains showed activity in regions associated with reward and addiction.

而核磁共振成像扫描显示,玩家的大脑有关的区域的活动与奖赏和成瘾有关。

YAEL:But men's brains showed a lot more activity.

雅埃尔:但男人的大脑则显示更多的活动。

So the idea is that men may be hard wired, in a sense, to get excited about the challenge ofgaining and losing territory.

所以我们的想法是,男人可能是天生固有的,在某种意义上会对挑战获得及失去领土感到兴奋。

In other words, it could be that men are more territorial than women.

换句话说,男人可能比女人更具有更强的地盘意识。

DON:And if that's true, it would explain why guys are so drawn to video games about war andsports, where the object is to vanquish your opponent and conquer territory.

唐:如果这是真的,这就能解释为什么男人对于战争和运动类的电子游戏像着了魔一样,因为它们的目的在于击垮你的对手及征服领土。

YAEL:So there may be some video games that women love more than men.

雅埃尔:所以可能会有一些女人比男人更喜爱的电子游戏,。

But territoriality may help explain why more violent games seem to be mainly a guy thing.

但领土意识可能有助于解释为什么似乎男人更钟情于暴力游戏。