Education and training for cognitive warfare

Cognitive Biases

Cognitive biases are systematic cognitive dispositions or inclinations in human thinking and reasoning that often do not comply with the tenets of logic, probability reasoning, and plausibility. These intuitive and subconscious tendencies are at the basis of human judgment, decision making, and the resulting behavior. Psychological frameworks...

Integrating Cognitive Developmental Neuroscience in Society: Lessons Learned From a Multidisciplinary Research Project on Education and Social Safety of Youth

Integrating fundamental science in society, with the goal to translate research findings to daily practice, comes with certain challenges. Successfully integrating research projects into society requires (1) good collaboration between scientists and societal stakeholders, (2) collaboration partners with common expectations and goals, and (3)...

Artificial creativity augmentation

Cognitive Biases

Cognitive biases are systematic cognitive dispositions or inclinations in human thinking and reasoning that often do not comply with the tenets of logic, probability reasoning, and plausibility. These intuitive and subconscious tendencies are at the basis of human judgment, decision making, and the resulting behavior. Psychological frameworks...

BCI to potentially enhance streaming images to a VR Headset by Predicting Head Rotation

While numerous studies show that brain signals contain information about an individual’s current state that are potentially valuable for smoothing man–machine interfaces, this has not yet lead to the use of brain computer interfaces (BCI) in daily life. One of the main challenges is the common requirement of personal data that is correctly...

Neurowetenschappelijke mechanismen van cognitieve bias

Cognitive heuristics and biases (H&B) have powerful influence on judgement and decisionmaking and thereby on human behavior. These (mainly unconscious) tendencies may thus also have high impact in many military situations and circumstances. This counts for the own organization as well as for direct opponents and neutral actors, such as coalition...

Using neurophysiological signals that reflect cognitive or affective state: Six recommendations to avoid common pitfalls

Estimating cognitive or affective state from neurophysiological signals and designing applications that make use of this information requires expertise in many disciplines such as neurophysiology, machine learning, experimental psychology, and human factors. This makes it difficult to perform research that is strong in all its aspects as well as...

Neuroscience in ergonomics and human factors research and practice

This article explores the possible application of neuroscientific knowledge in human factors research and pratice. Can this knowledge be implemented to improve the design and evaluation of systems and functional environments? Or - to take it one step further - could it bring about the integration of brain and system wihtin online applications?...

Perceiving blocks of emotional pictures and sounds: effects on physiological variables

Most studies on physiological effects of emotion-inducing images and sounds examine stimulus locked variables reflecting a state of at most a few seconds. We here aimed to induce longer lasting emotional states using blocks of repetitive visual, auditory, and bimodal stimuli corresponding to specific valence and arousal levels. The duration of...

Neuroscience for selection and training of resilient military personnel

The defense is confronted with a high competition on the labor market and a substantial scarcity of personnel. If we are able to enhance and maintain resilience and performance of personnel by proper selection procedures or mental training we expect to increase the return on investment of military education, training and operation, that is:...

EEG-Based Navigation from a Human Factors Perspective

Abstract In this chapter we discuss Brain-Computer Interfaces (BCIs) as navigation devices from a Human Factors point of view. We argue that navigation is more than only steering a car or a wheelchair. It involves three levels: planning, steering and control, linked to cognition, perception and sensation, respectively. We structure the existing...

Brain-Based Indices for User System Symbiosis

The future generation user system interfaces need to be user-centric which goes beyond user-friendly and includes understanding and anticipating user intentions. We introduce the concept of operator models, their role in implementing user-system symbiosis, and the usefulness of brain-based indices on for instance effort, vigilance, workload and...

Navigation with a passive brain based interface

In this paper, we describe a Brain Computer Interface (BCI) for navigation. The system is based on detecting brain signals that are elicited by tactile stimulation on the torso indicating the desired direction.

The future and health care technology: Implications of a system for early identification

Future and emerging health care technologies are increasingly high-impact events for society in terms of the quality and costs of health care. They raise issues of efficacy, safety, resource allocation, ethics, impact on the organization and delivery of care, and broad social effects. This article describes an analysis of future and emerging...

Multiple-task performance and aging

In our modern society, complex technological systems typically require people to perform several tasks in a limited period of time. In order to be able to optimize such technological systems, the present thesis aims at explicating some difficulties with regard to the fundamentals of multiple-task performance theory - especially in relation to...

Multiple-task performance: a critical review of the literature and a cognitive neuroscience framework

Bestaande theorieen inzake dubbeltaak-verrichting worden kritisch beschouwd en een nieuw theoretisch raamwerk wordt gepresenteerd waarin meer rekening wordt gehouden met het functioneren van de hersenen.