Human Performance Optimization: The Science and Ethics of Enhancing Human Capabilities explores current and emerging strategies for enhancing individual and team performance, especially in high-stakes, stressful settings such as the military, law enforcement, firefighting, or competitive corporate settings. Taking a cognitive neuroscience perspective, scientifically grounded approaches to optimizing human performance are explored in depth.
Michael D. Matthews is currently Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy. He is a Templeton Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow, Fellow of the Army Chief of Staff's Strategic Studies Group, and author of Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War (Oxford University Press, 2014.) David M. Schnyer is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin. He completed a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Arizona. While at the Memory Disorders Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine he was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K-award in multimodal neuroimaging techniques and trained at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (MGH). His lab researches the cognitive and neural systems that support memory and attention control in young and old healthy individuals, as well as in persons suffering from mental illness and traumatic brain injury.
Show moreHuman Performance Optimization: The Science and Ethics of Enhancing Human Capabilities explores current and emerging strategies for enhancing individual and team performance, especially in high-stakes, stressful settings such as the military, law enforcement, firefighting, or competitive corporate settings. Taking a cognitive neuroscience perspective, scientifically grounded approaches to optimizing human performance are explored in depth.
Michael D. Matthews is currently Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy. He is a Templeton Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow, Fellow of the Army Chief of Staff's Strategic Studies Group, and author of Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War (Oxford University Press, 2014.) David M. Schnyer is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin. He completed a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Arizona. While at the Memory Disorders Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine he was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K-award in multimodal neuroimaging techniques and trained at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (MGH). His lab researches the cognitive and neural systems that support memory and attention control in young and old healthy individuals, as well as in persons suffering from mental illness and traumatic brain injury.
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About the Editors
Contributors
Contents
Foreword by Raymond T. Odierno
Acknowledgments
1. Optimizing Human Performance
Michael D. Matthews and David M. Schnyer
2. Metabolic Enhancement of the Soldier Brain
Karl E. Friedl and Stephen J. Grate
3. Nutrition, Genetics, and Human Performance during Military
Training
Erin Gaffney-Stomberg and James P. McClung
4. Molecular and Cellular Aspects of Major Depressive Disorder
Revathy U. Chottekalapanda, Paul Greengard, and Yotam Sagi
5. Computational Approaches to Human Performance in Moderate and
Extreme Settings
Logan T. Trujillo
6. Brain-Computer Interfaces and Neurofeedback for Enhancing Human
Performance
Ranganatha Sitaram, Andrea Sánchez-Corzo, Mariana Zurita, Constanza
Levican, Daniela Huepe-Artigas, Juan Andrés Mucarquer, and Matías
Ramírez
7. Evolution of Physiological Status Monitoring for Ambulatory
Military Applications
William J. Tharion, Karl E. Friedl, Mark J. Buller, Natalia Henao
Arango, and Reed W. Hoyt
8. Neuroprosthetics for Human Performance Optimization
Yin Jui Chang, Gautam Krishna, and Benito R. Fernández
9. Mitigating Stress Response to Optimize Human Performance
James Ness and Josephine Q. Wojciechowski
10. The Role of Sleep in Human Performance and Well-Being
Nita Lewis Shattuck, Panagiotis Matsangas, Vincent Mysliwiec, and
Jennifer L. Creamer
11. Exoskeletons: State-of-the-art, Design Challenges and Future
Directions
Priyanshu Agarwal and Ashish D. Deshpande
12. Enhancing Human Cognitive Capital by Harnessing the Brain's
Inherent Neuroplasticity
Sandra B. Chapman, Lori G. Cook, Asha K. Vas, and Ian H.
Robertson
13. Optimizing Cognitive Performance
Valerie E. Martindale
14. Strategies to Improve Learning and Retention During
Training
Henry L. Roediger, III, John F. Nestojko, and Nicole Smith
15. Examining the Influence of Adaptive Instructional Techniques on
Human Performance for Tasks Conducted in Extremely Stressful Work
Environments
Robert Sottilare and Stephen Goldberg
16. Non-Cognitive Amplifiers of Human Performance: Unpacking the
25/75 Rule
Michael D. Matthews, Richard M. Lerner, and Hubert Annen
17. Leading Teams to Optimize Performance
Lissa V. Young
18. The Ethics of Human Enhancement: An Overview and Framework
Janice H. Laurence and Joshua A. Carlisle
19. Human Performance Optimization: Synthesis and Integration
Michael D. Matthews and David M. Schnyer
Index
Michael D. Matthews is currently Professor of Engineering
Psychology at the United States Military Academy. He is a Templeton
Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow, Fellow of the Army
Chief of Staff's Strategic Studies Group, and author of Head
Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War (Oxford University
Press, 2014.)
David M. Schnyer is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and
the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin.
He completed a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University
of Arizona. While at the Memory Disorders Research Center at Boston
University School of Medicine he was awarded a National Institutes
of Health (NIH) K-award in multimodal neuroimaging techniques and
trained at the Martino's Center for Biomedical Imaging (MGH). His
lab
researches the cognitive and neural systems that support memory and
attention control in young and old healthy individuals, as well as
in persons suffering from mental illness and traumatic brain
injury.
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