CNN News: 短信啊短信

Up next today, according to the Centers for Disease Control, it`s something that kills more than nine people in the U.S. every day and injures more than 1,100 nationwide. Car crashes when a distracted driver is reportedly involved.

下一條新聞，根據(jù)疾病控制中心的調查顯示，這件事情，致使美國每天有超過9人死亡，100多人受傷。而這件事所涉及的人是車禍時分神的司機。

Now, many people will hear that and think texting. But distractions far simpler than messages can keep the brain from focusing on the road.

現(xiàn)在，很多人會聽到短信、想發(fā)短信。但是短信非常容易讓大腦分神，無法集中關注路況。

We often take driving for granted, until something goes wrong, and then we think, what were we thinking?

我們經(jīng)常認為開車是理所當然的，直到發(fā)生了事故，到那時我們才想，我們當時在想什么呢?

Because driving involves your hands, your feet, your eyes, your ears, but it`s the brain the controls the action. In fact, driving uses about 20 different parts of your brain and distracting even one of those and the job at hand can be dangerous.

因為開車需要手、腳、眼、耳配合，但是控制行為的是我們的大腦。事實上，開車需要動用大腦20多個部位，但是只是手離開工作崗位的，情況就非常危險。

Let me show you what I mean: everything you`ll see while driving is handled here by the occipital lobe, while the temporal lobe interprets the sounds that you hear. So, taking your eyes off the road or turning off the music can really affect that input. You see that was close.

讓我跟你展示下：開車時，你看到的所有事物都是經(jīng)過枕葉處理的，枕葉解釋了你所聽到的聲音。所以，你的眼睛不看道路或者僅是關一下音樂都會影響信息處理。你看距離前面一輛車的距離很近了。

Measuring distance between cars changing lanes, deciding on how to stop, that`s a job of a parietal lobe. It integrates data from all of your senses. It`s activated when you switch your attention from one thing to another. But it too can be easily distracted.

頂葉的工作是估量改變車道車輛之間的距離、決定停車方式。它集成了你感官的所有數(shù)據(jù)。當你將注意力從一件事轉移到另一件事上，頂葉就被激活了。但是它也容易被分散。

For example, just listening to someone talk reduces the activity of the parietal lobe by nearly 40 percent. That affects how you drive. While talking on the cell phone and driving, even with an earpiece, that was said by researchers to be a recipe for disaster, especially if you`re turning in to oncoming traffic.

例如，僅是聽別人說話就可以減少頂葉40%的活動。這就會影響開車。在開車時接聽手機，即使帶著耳塞，研究人員將這種行為成為災難性行為，尤其是你重新注意到迎面開來的車輛。

I bet you`re thinking. So, if the brain needs to focus so much, why does driving seem so automatic? Well, it`s you`ve imprinted those motor skills in your brain is part of procedural memory. It`s your brain on autopilot. It allows you to focus on the more important things, like getting home safely.

我敢肯定你在思想。如果，大腦需要關注這么多的事情，那么為什么駕駛似乎是自動的呢?好吧，這是因為你的記憶力，大腦張運動技能程序性僅的一部分。這就是你的自動駕駛儀。這樣你可以將重點放到更加重要的事情上，例如，安全到家啦。