Psychological Biases Affecting Human Cognitive Performance in Dynamic Operational Environments

Cognitive Performance in Operational Environments

Optimal cognition during complex and sustained operations is a critical component for success in current and future military operations. “Cognitive Performance, Judgment, and Decision-making” (CPJD) is a newly organized U.S. Army Medical Research and Materiel Command research program focused on sustaining operational effectiveness of Future Force Warriors by developing paradigms through which m...

Human Psychological Performance in Cold Environments

Psychological factors affecting equine performance

For optimal individual performance within any equestrian discipline horses must be in peak physical condition and have the correct psychological state. This review discusses the psychological factors that affect the performance of the horse and, in turn, identifies areas within the competition horse industry where current behavioral research and established behavioral modification techniques co...

Cognitive biases in human causal learning.

The main aim of this work was to look for cognitive biases in human inference of causal relationships in order to emphasize the psychological processes that modulate causal learning. From the effect of the judgment frequency, this work presents subsequent research on cue competition (overshadowing, blocking, and super-conditioning effects) showing that the strength of prior beliefs and new evid...

Performance Measurement in Dynamic Environments

There has not been a uniform agreement regarding what constitutes “good” performance for evolutionary algorithms in dynamic environments. A performance measurement method should, as a minimum, have an intuitive meaning and provide straightforward methods for statistical significance testing of comparative results. In this paper we attempt to resolve some issues related to EA performance measure...