The animal behaves as if he's seen these things and we don't do this because we want to turn the mouse into a clockwork orange case, but because we're interested in understanding how the cortex works.

动物表现得好像他看到了这些东西，我们这样做不是因为我们想把老鼠变成一个发条橙盒，而是因为我们对理解大脑皮层是如何工作的感兴趣。