Fort Benning
U.S. Army Fort Benning and The Maneuver Center of Excellence
United States Army Research Institute Research Unit Fort Benning
United States Army Research Institute Research Unit Fort Benning
Cognitive Performance in Complex Conditions
Army Need: The Army is seeking advances in training and assessment technologies to improve cognitive performance for Soldiers who will be operating in an increasingly complex multi-domain battlespace.
Purpose: Provide scientifically based training strategies and tools for assessing and enhancing cognitive performance on individual and collaborative tasks executed in complex, multi-domain environments.
Payoff:
- Enhanced cognitive performance in the multi-domain environment resulting from an increased capability to make more effective decisions and better adapt to highly stressful and ambiguous conditions.
- Improved self-development through a better understanding of cognitive performance demands in complex multi-domain environments at critical points in a Soldier’s career.
- Enhanced institutional and homestation training providing Army Leaders with scientifically validated metrics, tools, and modules that more accurately assess and enable Soldiers to better develop, transfer, and retain key knowledge and skills critical to cognitive performance in complex environments.
Products:
- Methods and tools for assessing and enhancing the acquisition, retention, and application of knowledge and skills critical to cognitive performance in complex environments.
- Graves, T. R., Blankenbeckler, P. N., &Stallings, G. M. (2018). Enhancing fire control decision-making with the Patriot Cognitive Skills Trainer: development and validation. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Access: www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/AD1044544 - Graves, T. R., & Cobb, M. G. (2017). Cognitive skills training for air and missile defense. Poster presentation and training demonstration at the Department of Defense Lab Day Conference, Pentagon, Washington, D.C., 17-18 May 2017.
(To request a copy, contact Thomas.R.Graves5.civ@mail.mil)
- Graves, T. R., Blankenbeckler, P. N., &Stallings, G. M. (2018). Enhancing fire control decision-making with the Patriot Cognitive Skills Trainer: development and validation. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
- Refined instructional and self-development frameworks and tools enhancing the training of perceptual and metacognitive strategies enabling increased performance in complex, uncertain conditions.
- Stallings, G. M., Normand, S., Graves, T. R., Miller, L., Fike, D., & Brent, L. (2018). Developing Air Defense Artillery Warrant Officers’ cognitive skills: an analysis of training needs. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Access: www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1048723.pdf - Stallings, G. M., Graves, T. R., & Blankenbeckler, P. N. (2017). What do trainers need to know to train higher-order thinking skills? Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.
Access: www.dtic.mil/dtic/tr/fulltext/u2/1044603.pdf
- Stallings, G. M., Normand, S., Graves, T. R., Miller, L., Fike, D., & Brent, L. (2018). Developing Air Defense Artillery Warrant Officers’ cognitive skills: an analysis of training needs. Fort Belvoir, VA: U.S. Army Research Institute for the Behavioral and Social Sciences.