s'éclairer

Enfin, l'horizon s'éclairait.
At last, things were looking up.
Ils ont découvert que l'amygdale, une partie du cerveau associée à la peur et à l'anxiété, s'éclairait pour les objets rectangulaires mais par pour les objets ronds.
And what they found is that the amygdala, a part of the brain associated in part with fear and anxiety, lit up when people looked at angular objects, but not when they looked at the round ones.
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