時差N小時:男人和電子游戲 Video games-a guy thing

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

唐:又到了科學(xué)一刻的來信互動環(huán)節(jié)。

Yael:A listener writers in:

雅埃爾:一位聽眾這樣寫道:

Dear AMOS:

親愛的《科學(xué)一刻》欄目組:

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

為什么看起來男人比女人更傾向于電子游戲?

Is there a scientific explanation for this?

這其中有科學(xué)解釋嗎?

DON:Great question.

唐:問的好。

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

事實上有一些科學(xué)研究試圖解釋為什么電子游戲似乎是男人的菜。

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

雅埃爾:斯坦福大學(xué)研究員福米珂·霍夫特讓接受測試的11個男人和11女人躺在核磁共振掃描儀玩電子游戲。

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

這種機器可以記錄下體內(nèi)所發(fā)生變化的詳細圖片。

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:現(xiàn)在,參與者們玩的游戲其實很簡單:點擊小球并且不能撞到在電腦屏幕中心的一堵墻上。

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

玩家們很快發(fā)現(xiàn)他們點擊的速度越快,就會獲得更多的領(lǐng)土。What the MRI scan showed was thatthe player's brains showed activity in regions associated with reward and addiction.

而核磁共振成像掃描顯示,玩家的大腦有關(guān)的區(qū)域的活動與獎賞和成癮有關(guān)。

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

雅埃爾:但男人的大腦則顯示更多的活動。

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

所以我們的想法是,男人可能是天生固有的,在某種意義上會對挑戰(zhàn)獲得及失去領(lǐng)土感到興奮。

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

換句話說,男人可能比女人更具有更強的地盤意識。

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:如果這是真的,這就能解釋為什么男人對于戰(zhàn)爭和運動類的電子游戲像著了魔一樣,因為它們的目的在于擊垮你的對手及征服領(lǐng)土。

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

雅埃爾:所以可能會有一些女人比男人更喜愛的電子游戲,。

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

但領(lǐng)土意識可能有助于解釋為什么似乎男人更鐘情于暴力游戲。