Neuroscience Technologies
Abstract
The Neuroscience Technologies thrust leveraged recent advances in neurophysiology, neuro-imaging, cognitive science, molecular biology, and modeling of complex systems to sustain and protect the cognitive functioning of the warfighter faced with challenging operational conditions. Warfighters experience a wide variety of operational stressors, both mental and physical, that degrade critical cognitive functions such as memory, learning, and decision making. These stressors also degrade the warfighter's ability to multitask, leading to decreased ability to respond quickly and effectively. Currently, the long-term impact of these stressors on the brain is unknown, both at the molecular and behavioral level. This thrust area investigated modern neuroscientific techniques to develop quantitative models of this impact and explored mechanisms to protect, maintain, complement, or restore physical and cognitive functioning during and after exposure to operational stressors. In addition, new approaches for using physiological and neural signals to make human-machine systems more time efficient and less workload intense were identified.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Accomplishment
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 2017
- Source ID
- cae6fee9f03793d9197cae0c1559df45