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Brain Function in High-speed Navigation

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 January 2010

William Gooddy
William Gooddy
Affiliation:
(Consulting Neurologist to the Royal Navy)
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Disasters result from the breakdown of navigational faculties. Those concerned with the ‘practical’ aspects of navigation naturally assume a standard and infinitely flexible nervous system by which the individual can adjust to the stresses created by great speeds in the absence of habitual sense information. This paper outlines the nervous basis of adjustment to environment (personal navigation), the forms of breakdown in disease, and the nature of hallucinations. Some forms of disturbing experiences likely to be felt in modern navigation are predicted and explained. Such problems are seen as integral matters of aviation planning, design and practice.

‘The main aim … is to enable interested persons with quite different backgrounds of knowledge and experience, to come together and consider collectively a subject of common interest from their various standpoints.’

(A. M. A. Majendie, ‘The Significance of Blunders’, this Journal, 12, 28.)

Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Navigation , Volume 12 , Issue 3-4 , October 1959 , pp. 238 - 248
Copyright
Copyright © The Royal Institute of Navigation 1959

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