Higher landing accuracy in expert pilots is associated with lower activity in the caudate nucleus.

The most common lethal accidents in General Aviation are caused by improperly executed landing approaches in which a pilot descends below the minimum safe altitude without proper visual references. To understand how expertise might reduce such erroneous decision-making, we examined relevant neural p...

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Main Authors: Maheen M Adamson, Joy L Taylor, Daniel Heraldez, Allen Khorasani, Art Noda, Beatriz Hernandez, Jerome A Yesavage
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4245093?pdf=render