{"id":8653,"date":"2010-12-23T00:40:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-23T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/?p=8653"},"modified":"2010-12-23T00:40:10","modified_gmt":"2010-12-23T05:40:10","slug":"study-fighter-pilots-are-smarter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/23\/study-fighter-pilots-are-smarter\/","title":{"rendered":"Study:  Fighter Pilots are Smarter"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The University College London conducted a study comparing the brains <a href=\"http:\/\/www.upi.com\/Health_News\/2010\/12\/20\/Fighter-pilots-have-more-sensitive-brain\/UPI-45601292895744\/\">of Royal Air Force fighter pilots with non-fighter pilots<\/a> of &#8220;similar intelligence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found the pilots&#8217; brains were more likely than the controls to have enhanced responses to both relevant and irrelevant stimuli&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Senior author Masud Husain said&#8230;&#8221;We were interested in the pilots because they&#8217;re often operating at the limits of human cognitive capability &#8212; they are an expert group making precision choices at high speed.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>So fighter pilots are smart.\u00a0 Science proves it.<\/p>\n<p>And they have the egos to match&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The University College London conducted a study comparing the brains of Royal Air Force fighter pilots with non-fighter pilots of &#8220;similar intelligence.&#8221; The study, published in the Journal of Neuroscience, found the pilots&#8217; brains were more likely than the controls to have enhanced responses to both relevant and irrelevant stimuli&#8230; Senior author Masud Husain said&#8230;&#8221;We were interested in the pilots [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[1271,1272,5285,1270,1269],"class_list":["post-8653","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fighter-pilot","tag-brain","tag-ego","tag-fighter-pilot","tag-journal-of-neuroscience","tag-masud-husain"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8653"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8653\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8653"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8653"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/christianfighterpilot.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8653"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}