办公时哼小曲能提高工作效率

    Whistling while you work may not win you many friends - but it could help you do your job better. A leading psychologist claims whistling or singing helps distract the mind from trying too hard and prevents mental overload¹.
    动画片《白雪公主》里面七个小矮人倡导的“吹吹口哨愉快工作”经过科学的验证竟然是“确有其事”。虽然，在工作的时候“哼小曲”时常会招来领导和同事的不悦，然而有心理学家研究显示，工作的时候哼哼小曲还真的能减少工作压力，让您效率倍增呢。
    Far from being down to 'just nerves', choking occurs when the brain finds itself with too many pieces of information to process, resulting in 'paralysis² by analysis', argues Dr Sian Beilock of the University of Chicago. The same holds true when presenting a vital sales pitch, making an important putt or doing an audition³. Dr Beilock, who used brain scans to study what is going on the mind during high pressure situations in the lab, said: 'Choking is sub-optimal performance, not just poor performance.
    研究者说，人在压力特别大的时候，情绪上总会出现“窒息”的状况，比如说运动员在比赛时候的“最后一击”，或者人在拍卖喊价的时候都是十分紧张的。有专家运用“脑部扫描”测试人在压力大的时候脑部的活动状况，专家总结到，人在压力大的时候出现“令人窒息的情况”属于“亚情绪表现”。
    Even singing helps stop parts of the brain that might interfere⁴ with performance from taking over, she said. She has dubbed⁵ the phenomenon paralysis by analysis - when people try to control every aspect of what they are doing in a bid to ensure success. The researchers found that the brain can also sabotage⁶ performance because too much pressure is put on 'working memory' - part of the prefrontal cortex which focuses explicitly⁷ on the task in hand. Although the most talented people usually have the most working memory, anxieties and worries overload it, meaning the brain is no longer able to perform.
    专家说，唱歌是一种减轻脑部运转压力的方式，因为人在为了取得最终成功的时候，在努力的过程中总想做到样样事情“精益求精”，如果这样的话，脑部的负荷将是巨大的。另外，人的脑部中有一种区域叫做“前额皮质”（前额叶皮质区）这也是人脑用来掌管推理、判断、解决问题等智力发展的区域，压力大的时候，人脑的这块区域就会运转不正常。即使是智商非常高的人，在脑部负荷很大的情况下，也有出现错误的状况。

1 overload   

vt.使超载；n.超载

参考例句：

• Don't overload the boat or it will sink.别超载，否则船会沉。
• Large meals overload the digestive system.吃得太饱会加重消化系统的负担。

2 paralysis   

n.麻痹(症)；瘫痪(症)

参考例句：

• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。
• The paralysis affects his right leg and he can only walk with difficulty.他右腿瘫痪步履维艰。

3 audition   

n.(对志愿艺人等的)面试(指试读、试唱等)

参考例句：

• I'm going to the audition but I don't expect I'll get a part.我去试音，可并不指望会给我个角色演出。
• At first,they said he was too young,but later they called him for an audition.起初，他们说他太小，但后来他们叫他去试听。

4 interfere   

v.(in)干涉，干预；(with)妨碍，打扰

参考例句：

• If we interfere, it may do more harm than good.如果我们干预的话，可能弊多利少。
• When others interfere in the affair,it always makes troubles. 别人一卷入这一事件，棘手的事情就来了。

5 dubbed   

v.给…起绰号( dub的过去式和过去分词 )；把…称为；配音；复制

参考例句：

• Mathematics was once dubbed the handmaiden of the sciences. 数学曾一度被视为各门科学的基础。
• Is the movie dubbed or does it have subtitles? 这部电影是配音的还是打字幕的？ 来自《简明英汉词典》

6 sabotage   

n.怠工，破坏活动，破坏；v.从事破坏活动，妨害，破坏

参考例句：

• They tried to sabotage my birthday party.他们企图破坏我的生日晚会。
• The fire at the factory was caused by sabotage.那家工厂的火灾是有人蓄意破坏引起的。

7 explicitly   

ad.明确地，显然地

参考例句：

• The plan does not explicitly endorse the private ownership of land. 该计划没有明确地支持土地私有制。
• SARA amended section 113 to provide explicitly for a right to contribution. 《最高基金修正与再授权法案》修正了第123条，清楚地规定了分配权。 来自英汉非文学 - 环境法 - 环境法