You are given a sentence in Japanese. Your job is to translate the Japanese sentence into English.

メルヴィルはこの話を『白鯨』の題材に使い後年次のように書いています「可哀想なエセックス号の乗員は難破した場所からすぐに ― タヒチ島に向かっていれば苦しまずに済んだであろう
Herman Melville, who used this story as research for "" Moby Dick, "" wrote years later, and from dry land, quote, "" All the sufferings of these miserable men of the Essex might in all human probability have been avoided had they, immediately after leaving the wreck, steered straight for Tahiti.

どちらも目立ってきた語に着目しているのですが
We're noticing words that are coming into prominence.

神経科学者としてはこれは特に不可解でした一般的な考え方によれば期待が外れた時には期待を変えるべきだからです

As an neuroscientist, this was especially confusing, because according to all the theories out there, when your expectations are not met, you should alter them.

