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