60秒学美语：Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits

学更多地道英语口语，关注公众微信【英语】微信号：yingyu9 ，如果想系统学习提高英语口语能力，报名吉米老师听力口语特训班，百度传课网chuanke.com 搜索：听力口语特训班，看到第一个即可报名，356个同学报名啦，100%好评哦！ Publication Bias May Boost Findings for Bilingual Brain Benefits 【科学60秒】双语优势 Over the past 10 years, many scientific papers have shown that speaking more than one language can convey some cognitive rewards. For example, bilingualism seems to boost the brain’s ability to focus, plan, and perform certain mentally taxing tasks. But a few papers show no such advantages. 过去10年里，许多科研论文已经展示给我们，会说一种以上语言的能力能带来一些认知上的奖励。比如说， 双语能力貌似可以促进大脑集中精力，计划安排以及处理某种十分耗损经历的事情的能力。但是还有些文章研究并没有发现上述具有的积极作用。 Now a study finds that research that challenges a bilingual benefit is less likely to be published than studies that find one. This party pooping, or fiesta-foiling, finding is in the journal Psychological Science. [Angela de Bruin, Barbara Treccani and Sergio Della Sala, Cognitive Advantage in Bilingualism: An Example of Publication Bias? ]现在有项研究发现，挑战双语的利益没有单一语言的研究更容易被发表。 这种聚会消遣或者说嘉年华陪衬型的研究结果已经发表在《心理学科学》杂志上。 Researchers compared studies presented at conferences to those actually accepted for publication. Of the 104 meeting abstracts they examined, about half supported a bilingual advantage and half challenged or failed to find one. 研究人员们比较了会议上公布的以及最后实际出版的研究。他们检查了104篇会议摘要，其中一半内容支持双语优势的论断而一半内容不具有一种语言的优势。 But when it came to publication, 63 percent of the bilingual boosting studies made it into a scientific journal, as opposed to 36 percent of the studies with null findings. 但当研究已经发表的文章时，63%的双语促进型研究在科学杂志上发表，相对于没什么研究结果研究只占36%. The data do not address whether the bias toward affirmative results comes from the journal editors and reviewers or from the scientists themselves. And they don’t suggest that bilingualism offers no advantages. Regardless of brain function, there exist undeniable social benefits to having two tongues versus just one. 这些数据并不是说在杂志编辑和评审那里或者科学家们本身，是否具有对肯定性结果的偏见。而且他们并不建议说双语就没有优势。不管大脑功能如何，不可否认的是多会一门语言总还是有些社会价值的。