中新社北京7月28日电 北京时间28日晨,2022年斯诺克冠军联赛(排名赛版)在英国莱切斯特结束了第二阶段两个小组的争夺,世界第一奥沙利文爆冷出局,两位中国新星赵心童和庞俊旭以各自小组头名的身份挺进下一阶段的八强赛。至此,在本次大赛已产生的6个八强席位中,中国选手占据5席,他们分别是赵心童、庞俊旭、鲁宁、吕昊天、肖国栋,另一个八强名额被2015年世锦赛冠军、46岁的英国老将宾汉姆获得。 A team of scientists has discovered a likely explanation for why one may feel exhausted after engaging in intense cognitive work.,In their study, published in the Current Biology last week, the researchers argue that intense cognitive work, when it lasts for several hours, results in the buildup of potentially toxic byproducts in the prefrontal cortex part of the human brain, which then affects a person’s behavior.,“Influential theories suggested that fatigue is a sort of illusion cooked up by the brain to make us stop whatever we are doing and turn to a more gratifying activity,” Mathias Pessiglione of Pitié-Salpêtrière University in Paris, said as quoted in a news release by Cell Press. “But our findings show that cognitive work results in a true functional alteration—accumulation of noxious substances—so fatigue would indeed be a signal that makes us stop working but for a different purpose: to preserve the integrity of brain functioning.”,During the course of their research, the team employed magnetic resonance spectroscopy to monitor the brain chemistry of two groups of people during a workday, with one group performing easy cognitive tasks while the other engaged in more complex mental activities.,Only the latter group ended up exhibiting signs of fatigue, as well as a tendency to favor “options proposing rewards at short delay with little effort,” as the news release put it.,AmericasChild Survives After 7 Minutes Without Blood Flow to Brain During Surgery, US Cardiologist Reveals11 August, 16:41 GMT,Furthermore, members of that group had higher levels of glutamate in the synapses of the prefrontal cortex, leading the researchers to suggest that the accumulation of glutamate “makes further activation of the prefrontal cortex more costly,” and thus a mentally exhaustive workday makes cognitive control more difficult.,Unfortunately, there seems to be no fancy way to deal with this problem other than the tried and tested method that is probably as old as history itself.,“I would employ good old recipes: rest and sleep!” Pessiglione remarked. “There is good evidence that glutamate is eliminated from synapses during sleep.”。

B | 在当地时间27日进行的第二阶段A组赛中,中国选手庞俊旭、袁思俊面对七届世锦赛冠军、“火箭”奥沙利文和“机长”卡特的挑战。结果两名中国选手分别以3:1和3:0挑落“火箭”,又分别以3:1和2:2战胜和战平卡特,两名中国选手的内战以2:2打平。最终2胜1平的庞俊旭位居小组第一晋级下一阶段,袁思俊1胜2平小组第二出局。在赵心童与常冰玉所在的D组,赵心童均以3:0完胜常冰玉和加里·威尔逊,与马克·艾伦战至2:2平,同样以2胜1平列小组第一晋级。值得一提的是,在与常冰玉的较量中,赵心童打出单杆145分,刷新了个人职业生涯和本次比赛迄今的单杆最高分纪录。2022年斯诺克冠军联赛(排名赛版)是2022-2023赛季斯诺克的揭幕赛,比赛于6月28日-7月29日在莱切斯特举行,分为3个阶段:第一阶段128名球员分成32个小组进行单循环赛,各小组第一晋级第二阶段;第二阶段的32强分成8个小组,各小组第一晋级决赛阶段的八强赛。中国军团共有24人报名参加了这一赛事。在今年四月的斯诺克世锦赛正赛上遭遇一轮游后,中国台球领军人物丁俊晖已返回国内,缺席了此次比赛。在第一阶段赛中,中国军团7人成功突围。在第二阶段赛中,除分别与庞俊旭和赵心童同组的袁思俊、常冰玉遗憾出局外,其余5人悉数晋级。在本次大赛上,世界排名前三的奥沙利文、特鲁姆普和塞尔比相继折戟,特鲁姆普和塞尔比更是爆冷止步第一阶段。

C | 排名第四和第五的罗伯逊和希金斯未报名参赛,因此,在本次大赛的八强选手中,目前暂居世界第六的赵心童成为世界排名最高的选手,他也一跃而成最大夺冠热门。从在2021-2022赛季的岁末年初连获英锦赛和德国大师赛两个排名赛冠军后,生于1997年的赵心童就当之无愧地成为中国斯诺克新生代的领军人物。在第二阶段赛中,赵心童的强势表现和极佳状态,则成为他赢得本赛季首冠的重要砝码。

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