【双语】为什么我们在口语对话时，很难一直看(3)

So while making eye contact and holding a conversation is certainly possible, this is evidence that they can both draw on the same pool of cognitive resources, and sometimes that pool starts to run a little dry. [好文分享：www.11jj.com]

虽然人们的确能在交流时保持眼神接触，但这个证据表明，这两个过程能从相同的认知资源池中提取信息，以至于有时候这个池子开始有些见底了。

The sample size used was pretty small, but it"s an interesting hypothesis.

实验采用的样本非常少，但这是一个很有意思的假设。

In 2015, Italian psychologist Giovanni Caputo demonstrated that staring into someone else"s eyes for just 10 minutes induced an altered state of consciousness. Participants saw hallucinations of monsters, their relatives, and even their own faces.

2015年，意大利心理学家乔瓦尼•卡普托证明，只要盯着某人眼睛10分钟，就会诱发意识改变状态。受试者会看到各种幻想，如怪物、亲人、甚至自己的脸庞。

It seems that a process called neural adaptation is the cause, where our brains gradually alter their response to a stimulus that doesn"t change – so when you put your hand on a table, you immediately feel it, but that feeling lessens as you keep your hand there.

这似乎与一个被称为“神经适应”的过程有关，即如果刺激保持不变，大脑会逐渐改变对它的反应——因此，当你把手放在桌上时，会立刻有所感觉；但如果手一直放在桌上，感觉就会逐渐减弱。

The volunteers making eye contact and associating words may also be experiencing some kind of neural adaptation, but for now the Kyoto University researchers are calling for further study into the links between verbal and non-verbal communication.

在京都大学的实验中，志愿者同时进行眼神接触和联想词汇时，可能也经历了某种神经适应。京都大学的研究人员目前正在呼吁进一步研究语言交流和非语言交流之间的联系。

And in the meantime, if someone looks away while they"re talking to you, they might not be being rude – they could just have an overloaded cognitive system.

同时，如果有人在谈话过程中看向别处，他们可能不是不礼貌，只是认知系统超载了。

※英文原文来自于sciencealert.com