The Neuroscience of Being Human
The Neuroscience of the Car
Enclosure, insulation and the paradox of safety: how the car shapes the driver's brain, why road rage is neurologically predictable, and what happens to cognition when the vehicle does the thinking for you
2,163-word article with 24 Harvard references.
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The car is the most ubiquitous vehicle on earth and the one that has most profoundly altered the relationship between the human brain and physical space. It encloses the driver in a controlled environment, insulates them from weather, noise and physical vulnerability, and provides a level of sensory filtering that no other common transport mode replicates. This article explores how the car specifically shapes the driver's neurological experience: why the enclosed environment produces both comfort and aggression, how driver-assistance technologies are changing the brain's relationship with attention, and what neuroscience reveals about the particular psychology of the car commuter.
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