SAM 106 | Sensory conflict can impact situational awareness
The process by which situational awareness is formed begins withusing your five senses (seeing, hearing, feeling, tasting andsmelling) to gather information from your environment. That mayarguably be the easiest part of the situational awarenessdevelopmental process so long as you are \u201cpaying attention\u201d to yourenvironment. Once the senses gather information, it converts itinto an electrical code that crackles its way down neural pathwaysto various destinations.
At some point, the inputs from the senses must be combined,compared and contrasted to help achieve a coherent understanding ofwhat is happening. This \u201cunderstanding\u201d is the second step alongthe way to developing situational awareness. But it\u2019s not alwayseasy to understand the meaning of information, especially whenthere is conflict among the inputs.
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