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Environmental support for older and younger pilots' comprehension of air traffic control information
Author(s)	Daniel G Morrow, Lisa M Soederberg Miller, Heather E Ridolfo
Journal title	Journals of Gerontology: Series B, Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences, vol 60B, no 1, January 2005
Pages	pp P11-P18
Source	http://www.geron.org
Keywords	Air transport ; Learning capacity ; Cognitive processes ; Cross sectional surveys ; United States of America.
Annotation	The authors investigated whether expertise mitigates age differences on pilot communication tasks when experts rely on environmental support. Pilots and non-pilots listened to air traffic control messages describing a route through an airspace, during which they referred to a chart of the airspace. The routes were high (waypoint routes anchored in navigational reference points on the chart) or low ((vector routes that were not) in contextual support. Participants read back messages and answered questions about aircraft position (which required integration of message and chart information) or altitude (which did not). Pilots answered questions more accurately. The expertise advantage for position, but not altitude, questions was greater for waypoint routes, showing differential use of environmental support by experts. Age did not moderate these effects. (RH).
Accession Number	CPA-050505208 A
Classmark	OD: DE: DA: 3KB: 7T
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