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Frontal Lobe
Deciding and planning to go on a drive activates your frontal lobe. -
Peripheral Nervous System
Sensations: Your legs and back feel the pressure, seat belt across your chest are felt -
Spinal Cord
Sensations are passed -
Brain (central nervous system)
Sensations are passed -
Thalamus
Processes the information -
Somatosensory Cortex
Processes the meaning of the message sent by the thalamus -
Cerebellum
Keeps you vertical, assisting your balance, and helping to coordinate all movements -
Motor Cortex and Cerebellum
Putting the key into the ignition -
Basal Ganglia
Takes care of basic repetitive motor functions (like putting key in car) -
Thalamus
Sends signals to the temporal lobes, which allows you to recognize the song -
Temporal Lobes
Identifies the melody -
Hippocampus
Pulls information from the cerebral cortex, which allows you to sing along -
Cerebral Cortex
Helps you to remember song lyrics -
Wernicke's Area
Recognize words of the song -
Frontal Cortex
To help formulate a response to your friend -
Broca's Area
Allows you to say the name of the artist -
Parietal Lobe
Helps you judge the distance and speed -
Thalamus
Brings visual data of car, rear view mirror, and back window -
Occipital Lobe
Visual data is processed -
Motor Cortex
Arms control the steering wheel and gear shift -
Somatosensory Cortex
Allows feeling of pressure on the bottom of your foot as you move from break to acceleration -
Hippocampus
Searches memory for directions and which roads to take -
Lateral Hypothalamus
Processes a signal from your body and messages frontal lobe -
Frontal Lobe
Reads message to let body know that it is hungry -
Hippocampus
Searches memory for best restaurant -
Frontal Lobe
Decides what restaurant -
Thalamus and Occipital Lobe
Help to see lights and movement -
Thalamus and RAS
Focus you attention to what is happening -
Amygdala
Activates the sympathetic nervous system -
Hypothalamus
Hypothalamus is activated and adrenaline goes into blood and you hit the breaks -
Frontal Lobe
Working to get to stop on the side of the road, then sends a signal to body that everyone in the car is okay. Sends signal for you to pull to the side of the road. -
Parasympathetic Nervous System
Helps body to calm down, lowers breathing, chemicals move out of bloodstream, body resets himself. -
Sympathetic Nervous System
Sends a signal to body telling that digestion is not a priority, body realizes no longer hungry -
Frontal Lobe
Processes activities going on during the drive. -
Hippocampus
Helps to remember and second guess your decisions -
Cerebral Cortex
Helping to make memories into long term memories.
