Pilots are susceptible to various visual illusions and spatial disorientation, even in visual meteorological conditions, due to conflicting sensory input between vision, inner ear, and proprioception.

Vivekanand Pandey Vimal, GSAS PhD’17, is a research scientist at Brandeis’ Ashton Graybiel Spatial Orientation Lab. This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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