MPN11,
there's also that 4-dimensional awareness which is surely 'nature'.
Back in the 80s there was a concerted effort to try and improve the FC course pass rate, which as ever hovered around 30%, so a lot of boffins were brought to do tests upon those qualified to find out why we succeeded where others failed and to produce, in their terms, "a mathematical model of a fighter controller".
Lots of fun ensued as they stuck helmets on our heads with lasers on stalks and shown lights in our eyes to see what we were looking at as we controlled as we were controllling, scan pattern, memory and spatial tests. Every now and then they made a major discovery of they were very proud and deigned to share with us - such as we looked at things that moved or changed rapidly more often than slow moving objects or information thN rarely changed. Who'da thunk it.
Eventually they discovered that, indeed, controllers had very high spatial awareness!!
So they then decided to follow a couple of courses through from start to finish and see if their theory was correct. All candidates were checked before starting and a puzzling thing was found, apart from a slight variation everyone was about the same. Then a strange thing happened, those who progressed were showed a higher and higher level whilst those who failed did not, until by the end those who qualified met the profile of those originally tested.
Nurture, not nature.