Bioelectric Predictors of Personnel Performance: A Review of Relevant Research at the Navy Personnel Research and Development Center.

Abstract

Military personnel assessment has primarily depended on paper-and-pencil tests. Such tests predict academic performance but have been criticized for their ineffectiveness in predicting on-job performance. Results of recent research on brain function, which emphasizes process rather than content, suggest that certain brain wave tests predict on-job performance better than do the traditional tests. One area of this research includes bioelectric potentials. This report summarizes NAVPERSRANDCEN research in the area of bioelectric potentials (brain event-related potentials (ERPs) and their possible applications toward improving personnel selection, classification, and predicting on-job performance. These potentials are recorded from scalp electrodes in response to sensory input such as flashes or clicks. Research results show that ERPs are related to success in remedial reading, aptitute test scores, performance in fighter aircraft and on a sonar simulator, and to promotions and attrition. They suggests that ERP data are better able to discriminate and classify performance groups than paper and pencil test scores.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 01, 1983
Accession Number
ADA135566

Entities

People

  • G. W. Lewis

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Biomedical
  • Human Systems

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Biotechnology
  • Brain Waves
  • Cognition
  • Electrophysiological Phenomena
  • Enlisted Personnel
  • Information Processing
  • Information Science
  • Medical Personnel
  • Military Research
  • Pattern Recognition
  • Personnel Management
  • Physical Security
  • Psychology
  • Security
  • Security Personnel
  • Students
  • Trainees

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  • Brain and Cognitive Science; Experimental Psychology; Cognitive Neuroscience
  • Instructional Design and Training Evaluation.