1、m a member of a hip-hop collective called Doomtree.是一个名为Doomtree 的嘻哈团体的成员。Im the one in the tank top.我是穿背心的那个。(Laughter)(笑声)And I make my living as a performing, touring rapper and singer.以巡演表演为生 是一位独立歌手,也是说唱歌手。When we perform as a collective, this is what our shows look like.我们的集体表演就是这样子。m the one
2、in the boots.我是其中一人着靴子的。Theres a lot of jumping. Theres a lot of sweating.表演中有很多地方要跳跃和出汗;Its loud. Its very high-energy.是非常高能量的消耗和喧闹。Sometimes there are unintentional body checks onstage.偶尔在舞台上身体会互相阻挡。Sometimes there are completely intentional body checks onstage.又有时候会有身体的故意互相碰撞。s kind of a hybrid b
3、etween an intramural hockey game and a concert.有点像校内音乐会 和曲棍球比赛的混合。However, when I perform my own music as a solo artist,然而当我作为一个独唱的艺术家,I tend to gravitate towards more melancholy sounds.更倾向于呈现忧郁的声音。A few years ago, I gave my mom the rough mixes of a new album,几年前,我给母亲 一张混音的新专辑,and she said, Baby, it
4、s beautiful, but why is it always so sad?她说,“宝贝,歌很美, 但为什么总是那么忧伤?”You always make music to bleed out to.“你总是创作渗出悲凉的音乐。And I thought, Who are you hanging out with that you know that phrase?我想,“你是和谁一起 学会用到这个词组?But over the course of my career, Ive written so many sad love songs在我的职业生涯中, 写了非常多忧伤的爱情歌曲,th
5、at I got messages like this from fans:以致常常收到这样的信息:Release new music or a book. I need help with my breakup.“尽快出新音乐或书籍, 帮助我分手。And after performing and recording and touring those songs for a long time,在演出,录制音像 和巡演了很长一段时间之后,I found myself in a position我发现自己的专业定位、in which my professional niche was esse
6、ntially romantic devastation.是达致完全摧毁浪漫的地步。What I hadnt been public about, however,然而我并没有公开,was the fact that most of these songs had been written about the same guy.这些歌曲大部分都是 和同一个人有关的。And for two years, we tried to sort ourselves out,有两年,我们两人试图 梳理我们之间的问题,and then for five然后是五年,and on and off for 10.
7、并断断续续十年了。And I was not only heartbroken,我不只是心碎,but I was kind of embarrassed that I couldnt rebound而且有点尴尬,因为我没办法from what other people seemed to recover from so regularly.像其他人一样,惯常的恢复过来。And even though I knew it wasnt doing either of us any good,我知道这对我俩都没有好处,I just couldnt figure out how to put the
8、love down.我只是不知道如何把那爱放下。Then, drinking white wine one night,有一天,在喝了一夜的酒之后,I saw a TED Talk by a woman named Dr. Helen Fisher,我看了海伦.费雪 女博士的TED演讲,and she said that in her work, shed been able to map the coordinates of love她提到她已经能够绘制出人类大脑中in the human brain.恋爱的坐标。And I thought, well, if I could find my
9、 love in my brain,于是我想,如果我可以 在大脑中找到我的恋情所在,maybe I could get it out.也许可以把它拿出來。So I went to Twitter.所以我上了推特,Anybody got access to an fMRI lab,“无论是午夜或任何时候,like at midnight or something?谁有进入功能磁共振实验室的许可?ll trade for backstage passes and whiskey.我会用后台通行证和威士忌交换。And thats Dr. Cheryl Olman,那是谢丽尔奥尔曼博士,who wor
10、ks at the University of Minnesotas Center for Magnetic Resonance Research.她在明尼苏达大学的 磁共振研究中心工作。She took me up on it.她接受了我的邀请。I explained Dr. Fishers protocol,我解释了费雪医生的治疗方案,and we decided to recreate it with a sample size of one, me.商议后决定用我, 这唯一一个样本做这个试验。So I got decked out in a pair of forest green s
11、crubs,我穿了一身森林绿色的衣服,and I was laid on a gurney躺在轮床上,and wheeled into an fMRI machine.然后被推入功能磁共振仪里。If youre unfamiliar with that technology,如果你对那个技术不太熟悉,essentially, an fMRI machine is a big, tubular magnet功能磁共振仪基本上 是一个大型的管状磁铁,that tracks the progress of deoxygenated iron in your blood.可以跟踪血液中缺氧铁的变化。S
12、o its essentially figuring out what parts of your brain它会弄清楚你大脑的哪一部分,are making the biggest metabolic demand at any given moment.在给定时刻有最大的新陈代谢需求。And in that way, it can figure out由此计算出which structures are associated with a task,大脑哪个部分跟某一身体活动相关联,like tapping your finger, for example, will always ligh
13、t up the same region,比如重复轻敲你的手指, 总能点亮同一的区域,or in my case,或者在我的例子中,looking at pictures of your ex-boyfriend望着我前男友的照片一段时间,and then looking at pictures of a dude who just sort of resembled my ex-boyfriend然后看一张有点像我前男友的照片,but for whom I had no strong feelings.但我对这人没有强烈的感情;He was the control.这是对照实验。And wh
14、en I left the machine,当我离开仪器,we had these really high-resolution images of my brain.他们得到了我大脑 非常高解析度的图像。We could cleave the two halves apart.他们可以将我的大脑成像分成两半,We could inflate the cortex to see inside all of the wrinkles, essentially,可以使皮质膨胀,看到所有皱纹,in a view that Dr. Cheryl Olman called the brain skin rug.这就是谢丽尔奥尔曼博士 所说的“大脑外皮地毯”。And we could see how my brai
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