ISAE-SUPAERO Conference paper
The 1st International Conference on Cognitive Aircraft
Systems – ICCAS
March 18-19, 2020
https://events.isae-supaero.fr/event/2
Scientific Committee
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Mickaël Causse, ISAE-SUPAERO
•Caroline Chanel, ISAE-SUPAERO
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Jean-Charles Chaudemar, ISAE-SUPAERO
•Stéphane Durand, Dassault Aviation
•Bruno Patin, Dassault Aviation
•Nicolas Devaux, Dassault Aviation
•Jean-Louis Gueneau, Dassault Aviation
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Claudine Mélan, Université Toulouse Jean-Jaurès
•Jean-Paul Imbert, ENAC
Permanent link :
https://doi.org/10.34849/cfsb-t270
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ICCAS 2020 Hypnotizability as a possible para …
Hypnotizability as a possible parameter to identify
the attentional abilities of a pilot
Content
The pilot might well be considered as the ultimate component of an aircraft, hence the importance of tailoring his training in order to optimise his performance.
Hypnotizability is a psychophysiological trait quite popular owing to its role in the cognitive con-trol of pain. It is measured by scales, which allow to classify the general population as highly (highs), medium (mediums) and low (lows) hypnotizable individuals, and is associated with differ-ences in cortical activity/connectivity, sensorimotor integration and cardiovascular control, also in the absence of suggestions and in the ordinary state of consciousness. We suggest that few hypnotisability- related psychophysiological characteristics may be relevant to pilot selection. In fact, highs exhibit peculiar imagery abilities and proneness to experience bodily signals in an adaptive perspective. The former characteristic mainly consists of stronger Functional Equivalence (FE) between imagery and perception/action, as suggested by behavioural studies and supported by topological analysis of EEG during mental imagery. Stronger FE indicates greater ability to simulate actual sensorimotor information, which occurs likely through greater cortical excitabil-ity and allows to produce ideomotor behaviour responding to sensori-motor suggestions. The latter consists of greater ability to utilize bodily signals in the construction of the individual self, which occurs at high levels of the central nervous system owing to continuous monitoring of bod-ily information. Nonetheless, the highs’ greater sensibility to interoceptive signals is associated with lower accuracy in their detection, so that different modes of homeostatic responses to intero-ceptive stimulation could be suggested in participants with different hypnotisability levels. Highs could be more suitable to serve as pilots owing to their ability to substitute lacking actual in-formation with imagined inin-formation and to adaptively interpret interoceptive changes associated with flights. Unfortunately, they represent only 15% of the population, which consists also of 70% of mediums and 15% of lows. Thus, our proposal is to submit low to medium hypnotizable pilots to mental training focused on sensorimotor images and on the re-appraisal of bodily information
Keywords : Mental workload, Acute stress, Emotion, Fatigue
Dr SCATTINA, Eliana (Department of Translational Research and New Technologies in Medicine and Surgery, University of Pisa, Pisa, Italy)
