{"id":22134,"date":"2016-02-15T17:16:42","date_gmt":"2016-02-16T01:16:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns"},"modified":"2017-04-24T22:22:47","modified_gmt":"2017-04-25T05:22:47","slug":"now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/02\/now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns","title":{"rendered":"Now you can learn to fly a plane from expert-pilot brainwave patterns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/oIvdvG_zj6A?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" class=\"\" title=\"XForce Dream Simulator\" src=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"402\" \/><b><center>Elite X-Plane General Aviation Dream Package flight simulator system (credit: Xforce PC)<\/center><\/b><\/p>\n<p>You can learn how to improve your novice pilot skills by having your brain zapped with recorded brain patterns of experienced pilots via <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Transcranial_direct-current_stimulation\" target=\"_blank\">transcranial direct current stimulation<\/a> (tDCS), according to researchers at <a href=\"http:\/\/hrl.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">HRL Laboratories<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe measured the brain activity patterns of six commercial and military pilots, and then transmitted these patterns into novice subjects as they learned to pilot an airplane in a realistic flight simulator,\u201d says Matthew Phillips, PhD.<\/p>\n<p>The study, published in an <a href=\"http:\/\/journal.frontiersin.org\/article\/10.3389\/fnhum.2016.00034\/full\" target=\"_blank\">open-access paper<\/a> in the February 2016 issue of the journal <em>Frontiers in Human Neuroscience<\/em>, found that novice pilots who received brain stimulation via electrode-embedded head caps improved their piloting abilities, with a 33 percent increase in skill consistency, compared to those who received sham stimulation. \u201cWe measured the average g-force of the plane during the simulated landing and compared it to control subjects who received a mock brain stimulation,\u201d says Phillips.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/now-you-can-learn-to-fly-a-plane-from-expert-pilot-brainwave-patterns\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elite X-Plane General Aviation Dream Package flight simulator system (credit: Xforce PC) You can learn how to improve your novice pilot skills by having your brain zapped with recorded brain patterns of experienced pilots via transcranial direct current stimulation (tDCS), according to researchers at HRL Laboratories. \u201cWe measured the brain activity patterns of six commercial [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":362,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9,47,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-military","category-neuroscience","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/362"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22134"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43824,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22134\/revisions\/43824"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}