Citation

Williams LJ. Int. J. Aviat. Psychol. 1995; 5(2): 215-232.

Affiliation

Rowan College of New Jersey, Glassboro, USA.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1995, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

11540258

Abstract

In the two experiments that examined recognition accuracy in the near visual periphery as a function of foveal cognitive load, aviators were shown to have larger effective functional visual fields than nonaviators. The aviators appeared to be far less susceptible to the visual field narrowing found in nonaviators. The narrowing found in nonaviators suggested a tunnel-vision-like pattern. The rather small effect of load increases on aviator performance was likely due to specialized training and experience. Student aviators who averaged only 70 flight hr were clearly superior to nonaviators on peripheral recognition with a concomitant foveal task.

Language: en