Flight Experience and Mental Representations of Space
ABSTRACTObjective: This study investigated whether increased flight experience as a pilot was associated with improved small-scale spatial skills and the ability to form a cognitive map of a novel ground-based virtual environment.Background: Early-career civil aviation pilots have been shown to form more accurate cognitive maps of a novel virtual environment than nonpilots. We sought to extend this finding to determine whether cognitive map accuracy was also associated with pilot flight experience.Method: Pilots completed small-scale spatial ability tasks, including assessments of perspective taking and spatial working memory, and then traveled along 4 routes in a virtual environment. Subsequently, they completed 2 tests that assessed their memory for the layout of landmarks in the virtual environment.Results: Pilots with more flight experience did not have more accurate cognitive map representations of the environment than pilots with less flight experience; however, increased flying experience was associated with better performance on a perspective-taking test.Conclusion: Perspective taking has been proposed as central to navigation awareness during flight, and the data reported here suggest it improves with experience.
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Authors:
- Keller, Mikayla
- Sutton, Jennifer E.
- Publication Date: 2018-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 76-83
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Serial:
- The International Journal of Aerospace Psychology
- Volume: 28
- Issue Number: 3-4
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 2472-1840
- Serial URL: https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/hiap21/current
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Airline pilots; Civil aviation; Cognition
- Uncontrolled Terms: Cognitive maps (Psychology); Mental representation; Pilot experience; Spatial ability
- Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Aviation; Education and Training; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01696502
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: Feb 27 2019 9:40AM