press the button

基本解释

When the window in Figure 1 appears, press the button.
当出现图 1 所示的窗口时，按下按钮。
But the car boots up and shuts down a lot faster than a computer when you press the button.
但是车的启动和关闭要比你按下电脑按钮开启电脑快得多。
They then had to inhibit that response and not press the button when a different stimulus appeared on the screen in its place.
然后，当屏幕的相应位置出现不同的刺激物时，他们必须抑制这种反应，而不去按下按钮。

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and your only job during this tasks is to press the button when that target comes on before it leaves the screen.
而你在这些任务中唯一要做的事,就是在目标出现未消失前按下按钮。
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so the kind of experiment that we did, let's imagine your mind-magnet you are sitting there, you are looking through little parscope that the screen you can respond with a button press.
我们做的那种试验，让我们想象一下思维磁场,你坐在那里，你在看一个小的示波器的屏幕,你可以以按按钮作为回应。
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Note: press the button once quickly, do not hold it as the instructions eluded to.
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