一 words ＆ expressions
1.The resulting memory and navigational skills are short of astonishing, and so London taxi drivers have proved irresistible to psychologists.
resulting:caused by the event or situation which you have just mentioned因而發生的；作為結果的
例句：The tape was left near a magnetic source, and the resulting damage was considerable.
造句：He murdered a man, and the resulting expense was in jail.
irresistible:impossible to refuse, oppose or avoid because too pleasant, attractive or strong不可抗拒的，無法抵擋的
造句：These crests everywhere when combined with the City of London's age and wealth and quasi-independent status make it an irresistible temptation for conspiracy nuts.
2. There is a growing body of evidence that both the structure and the fuction of the brain change in response to various sorts of mental training.
body of :a large amount or mass of something, especially something that has been collected大量的某物 ??
body of knowledge/evidence/opinion etc
造句：There is a growing body of evidence that crime rate is on the rise.
3. unfathomable memory and processing power, can only vaguely approximate.
unfathomable:too strange or mysterious to be understood莫測高深的，難以理解的
例句：For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen.
造句：It will signal what is left after the hubris of Iraq and unfathomable complexities of Afghanistan.
二 thoughts＆summary＆background information
大腦可塑性的來源
2007年，法國醫生在為一名44歲法國男子的腦部做CT和核磁共振掃描后驚訝地發現，其腦室里充滿了腦脊液，原本正常的腦組織由于受擠壓薄得像一張紙。令人吃驚的是，這位“幾乎沒有大腦”的患者智商竟有75，不僅像正常人一樣娶妻生子，甚至還干著政府公務員的差事。7月19日，英國著名醫學權威雜志《柳葉刀》率先刊登了這起罕見病例之后，國際醫學界為之震驚。
弗利葉醫生指出：“這個案例足以說明，腦組織可塑性非常大，在適當情況下，能夠自動適應出生前或出生后的腦損傷。”來自美國馬里蘭州“國家人類基因組研究協會”的小兒腦部缺損科醫生馬克斯·明克表示：“令我感到非常驚訝的是，該患者的腦組織是如何做到與我們一般認為不可能相容的事物（腦積水）和諧共處的。也許經過數十年的緩慢變化，其大腦里的其他部分已經替代那些本應該存在的腦組織，并正常地發揮功能?！?/p>
第二章通過倫敦司機的那個例子說明：大腦的海馬體hippocampus會隨著你的練習而增大。
visual cortex視表層的例子也說明我們通過練習來改變大腦結構，提高相關的
