He hardly remembered doing it afterwards

整个事件中的奇怪的一环是
which was an interesting part of the story,

事后他对此基本没印象
and the investigators, the scientists never really knew

而研究员和科学家们永远不会知道
whether he did this as a desire to get out of the study,

他这样做的意图
to have an excuse for getting out of the study,

是为了找个借口逃避研究
or whether there was some more serious psycho --

还是真的有很严重的精神问题
well not that that's not serious,

也许没有那么严重
but some additional psychological disturbance

而他只是经受了些
that he might have been experiencing.

额外的精神方面的困扰
There were also poor cognitive effects.

实验中也出现了对认知方面的负面影响
Now not too many of these showed up on objective tests.

这些在客观的测验中没有太多的体现
But the men perceived things like concentration and memory deteriorating

但受试者会感到注意力和记忆力减退