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Understanding The Human Brain: Key Insights in Aviation Human Error

Explore the intricate workings of different brain sections impacting human error in aviation, from the Executive Brain and 3 Brains model to the critical role of the Prefrontal Cortex and the Social Brain. Discover the mental braking system, insight moments, and the brain's limited mental resources. Understand how mental rehearsal shapes experience and the power of social needs in brain function. Gain insights on addressing human error through brain awareness and change.

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Understanding The Human Brain: Key Insights in Aviation Human Error

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  1. The Human Brain Forgotten in Aviation

  2. Human Error “all occasions in which a planned sequence of mental or physical activity fails to achieve its intended outcome”. Reason, 1990

  3. Scope • Executive Brain • Social Brain • Science of Insight

  4. 3 Brains • Reptilian - basic functions • Mammalian - emotions • Neocortex - higher functions, language etc

  5. Prefrontal Cortex • Newest part of our brain • Executive Function • Contains our conscious thoughts at any one time • Two basic modes • Serial processor • Mental braking system

  6. Prefrontal Cortex • Newest part of our brain • Executive Function • Contains our conscious thoughts at any one time • Two basic modes • Serial processor • Mental braking system

  7. Mental Braking System Activated when we inhibit natural responses BLACK

  8. The brain’s limited mental resource “We have a limited bucket of mental resources for mental activity like decision making and impulse control, when we use these up we don’t have as much for the next activity.” DR Roy Beaumeister

  9. Intelligence If yuo can raed tihs, you hvae a sgtrane mnid

  10. 3 Levels of Thinking 1. Deleting emails 2. Scheduling a meeting 3. Planning or problem solving

  11. Our PFC is an Experience Simulator ‘With mental rehearsal, minds and bodies become trained to actually perform the skill imagined’

  12. Social Brain

  13. Human Social Behavior Status Certainty Autonomy Relatedness Fairness Threat Reward

  14. Limbic Response Feel Good Reward Threat Get ready to run

  15. The Moment of Insight • Requires a ‘quiet’ brain • 60% of complex problems are solved in this manner • Brain storming can inhibit insight

  16. Moment of Insight

  17. Conclusion • Our PFC is the seat of human error • It is very fragile an inefficient • We need to be aware of internal states • Social needs are most important • We can change our brain so why don't we?

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