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What Is a Cognitive Tunnel?
On quentas flight 32, if you listen to tape recordings of the cockpit, what you basically hear are people speaking in very short, calm sentences. It's almost as if they were reading from a script, because they had practised what they were going to do in case of an emergency. And at that moment, richard de crebney starts falling into what is called a cognitive tunnel,. A cognitive tunnel is something we've experienced when there's too much information around us and our brain tends to focus on the most obvious inputs possible.