1. Acquiring a new tast
   1. 1. Putting a new food into one's mouth
   2. 2. The taste of the food is gathered up by the sense of taste
   3. 3. The sense of taste sends information to our brain saying whether or not it tastes good.
   4. 4. The brain sends our thoughts about the taste to the correct lobe of the brain.
   5. 5. If we like the taste of the food, we will process that information for a while probably a couple of minutes.
   6. 6. Our brain will retain the information in our long-term memory so that if it was good we will want it again, and if not we will remember when we see the food to not eat it again.l
2. Information Processing
   1. Steps of routing information
      1. We gather input from our five senses or retrieve it from memory and thinking.
      2. Information first goes to the thalamus for initial processing.
      3. At the same time, the information is routed to the correct lobe for further processing.
      4. It also immediately goes to the subcortical areas.
      5. If it is an emergency stimulus, the amygdala will respond immediately and recruit other areas of the brain.
      6. Later, the information is sent to the hippocampus for more subtle evaluation, and held over time.
      7. As time goes on, the hippocampus will organize, distribute, and connect the memories with the appropriate areas of the cortex for long-term storage.
3. Information that we take in goes directly to the thalamus. This is the central area of the brain. As it makes its way through the other various parts of the brain, it is separated out, and our brain decides what is important enough to keep and where it should be stored. Some of this information is stored in our short-term memory, some into long-term memory, and some of it is forgotten. Certain information goes to certain parts of the brain, for instance, visual information is routed to the occipital lobe and language to the temporal lobe.Information held in short-term memory is often stored in the frontal lobe.