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Wednesday, December 15th, 2010 12:44 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
rolanniFighter pilots may owe their ability to perform under pressure to the way their brains are wired-up, scans suggest.
The study found differences in the white matter and connections of the brain's right hemisphere, compared with healthy volunteers who were not pilots.
and...
The findings suggested that optimal cognitive control is accompanied by structural alterations in the brain - not only are the relevant areas of the brain larger but connections between key areas are different, he said.
He told the BBC: "An interesting question is whether these pilots were born like that - and so are good as pilots - or have done this through training.
"There's a suggestion it may be they are born like that."
The whole story here
The study found differences in the white matter and connections of the brain's right hemisphere, compared with healthy volunteers who were not pilots.
and...
The findings suggested that optimal cognitive control is accompanied by structural alterations in the brain - not only are the relevant areas of the brain larger but connections between key areas are different, he said.
He told the BBC: "An interesting question is whether these pilots were born like that - and so are good as pilots - or have done this through training.
"There's a suggestion it may be they are born like that."
The whole story here
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Date: 2010-12-15 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-15 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-15 06:34 pm (UTC)Where's the difference?
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Date: 2010-12-15 08:09 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-15 09:03 pm (UTC)(I mean, if you can breed for charisma and stage presence, which the existence of Drew Barrymore and Kiefer Sutherland, among others, would seem to prove, then piloting ability isn't all that far fetched.)
Maybe *they* can't breed for pilots
Date: 2010-12-15 09:45 pm (UTC)Lauretta@ConstellationBooks
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Date: 2010-12-17 06:44 am (UTC)...like you can't breed for athletic prowess, either...
...or, as has been already noted, acting ability...
...or longevity. [Ooops! My bad. That one's been done.]
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Date: 2010-12-15 06:26 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-15 06:35 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-15 09:05 pm (UTC)Or, as Himself and his Navy friends were wont to say of aviators in general, "their brains don't function below 30,000 feet."
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Date: 2010-12-15 09:37 pm (UTC)Somewhat off topic..
Date: 2010-12-15 09:49 pm (UTC)Someone with more experience with the BBP will have to tell me if this is a good or bad indicator ...
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So you think we make this stuff up?
Date: 2010-12-16 02:08 am (UTC)Barb in Bandon
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Date: 2010-12-16 02:52 am (UTC)Made Up?
Date: 2010-12-16 06:09 am (UTC)C.