wax tablet One of the earliest models used to explain memory

原句翻译：最早用来解释记忆储存的模型之一便是“蜡片”理论。所谓蜡片理论：Not surprisingly, the first person to introduce a really majoridea in the field of memory was Plato, in the 4th century B。C。His theory is known as the Wax Tablet Hypothesis and is stillaccepted by some people today, although there is growingdisagreement。 不奇怪的是,第一个提出记忆领域重要思想的是在公元前4世纪的柏拉图。他的理论以蜡片假说著称。虽然有日益增长的不同意见,这个假说今天仍然被一些人所接受。To Plato the mind accepted impressions in thesame way that wax becomes marked when a pointed object ismoved around on its surface。 Once the impression had beenmade Plato assumed it remained until, with time, it wore away,leaving a smooth surface once more。 柏拉图认为,人脑接受印象就像蜡表面被尖状物划过留下痕迹一样。一旦留下印象,它就会保持,直到随着时间的推移又恢复平滑的表面。This smooth surface was,of course, what Plato considered to be complete forgetting—theopposite aspects of the same process。 As will become clear later,many people now feel that they are actually two quite differentprocesses。这个光滑的表面当然就是柏拉图认为的完全的遗忘----同一过程的相反方面。现在,许多人觉得实际上他们是十分不同的两个过程,这一点一会儿很快就会清楚的。http://cache。baidu。com/c?m=9f65cb4a8c8507ed4fece763105795354803c1743ca08e4e3b838448e435061e5a39b4e477755045ce9a37375ff21c02b1aa6b2e620720aaeb96d51fc0eace69388824373258fb114a9442c7bf1f72d627e451aff85b9ec18445c5aba1c4df5750ca55127af7a7d71c405fde2aad5467ece3ca02025f61fcbe603ba81f6029ee3430c75088e52518079681db&p=9f348e0785cc45ff57eb91605508&user=baidu