来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：心理学导论第2集第2集》

how is the brain wired up?

大脑是如何构造出来的
And the answer is,

问题的答案是这样的
unlike many, unlike commercially generated computers,

与出于商业目的而制造的计算机不同
the brain works through parallel processing,

大脑采用并行加工的方式处理信息
massively parallel distributed processing.

采用广泛分布的并行加工
There's a whole lot of research and this is research,

已经存在大量的研究
some of which takes place outside psychology departments

这其中有些并非是心理学研究人员所做
and in engineering departments

而是由工程学
and computer science departments,

以及计算机科学的研究人员所完成的
trying to figure out

这些研究试图去探索
how a computer can do the same things brains can do.

计算机究竟如何才能像大脑那样去运行
And one way people do this is

进行研究的方法之一便是