导读：最近，英国研究人员探索了机械手指如何影响人的钢琴弹奏能力。该实验包括在12名受试者的右手上安装一个机械手指。其中6人是钢琴手，其余6人则不是。

 

British researchers have explored how a robotic finger can affect a person’s ability to play the piano. The experiment involved attaching a robotic finger on the right hand of 12 test subjects. Six of the individuals were piano players. Six were not.

The leader of the project was Professor Aldo Faisal, a neuroscientist(神经学家) at Britain’s Imperial College of London. Being a piano player himself, he said he wondered how his playing ability would be affected if he had an extra finger. “So I started really with a robotics challenge,” Faisal said. “Can we build a robotic thumb that can sit on the opposite side of the right hand and play music with it?”

The robotic finger was controlled by electrical signals produced by the foot movements of the piano players. Faisal said the robotic finger felt very unnatural and was difficult for players to get used to at first. But after a few hours using the device, he said it almost felt like “an extension of you.”

Faisal noted that within an hour of being fitted with the robotic finger, six players had learned to use it effectively with the piano keys. “There’s a dedicated area of your brain responsible for every single finger,” Faisal said. “If I give you an eleventh finger...are you processing it the same way as you’re processing a regular limb?”

Researchers involved in the experiment reported that the six pianists and six non-playing volunteers all quickly adapted to using the extra thumb. They said this result suggests people are not limited to using an extra finger only for things they already know how to do.

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阅读题及答案展示：

1 . What’s the purpose of the experiment according to the passage?

A To compare the finger habits of different people.

B To prove humans can play the piano with an extra finger.

C To explore if the extra finger will influence the piano player.

D To know the difference between the two groups using the robotic finger.

 

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