Hands off, brain off? A meta-analysis of neuroimaging data during active and passive driving.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Car driving is more and more automated, to such an extent that driving without active steering control is becoming a reality. Although active driving requires the use of visual information to guide actions (i.e., steering the vehicle), passive driving only requires looking at the driving scene without any need to act (i.e., the human is passively driven).

Materials & methods

After a careful search of the scientific literature, 11 different studies, providing 17 contrasts, were used to run a comprehensive meta-analysis contrasting active driving with passive driving.

Results

Two brain regions were recruited more consistently for active driving compared to passive driving, the left precentral gyrus (BA3 and BA4) and the left postcentral gyrus (BA4 and BA3/40)

SUBMITTER: Jordan N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10726911 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature