Publications by authors named "David J Bryant"
Article Synopsis
- Working memory (WM) is essential for keeping and processing information despite distractions, and individual differences in WM span reflect its limited capacity.
- Recent findings suggest that WM capacity can be enhanced through training, potentially altering the brain's neural structures responsible for WM.
- A meta-analysis of fMRI studies shows WM training leads to decreased BOLD responses in key brain areas linked to WM, indicating a change in how these neural systems operate, with implications for understanding the concept of WM as a finite resource.
People can make use of a range of heuristic and rational, compensatory strategies to perform a multiple-cue judgment task. It has been proposed that people are sensitive to the amount of cognitive effort required to employ decision strategies. Experiment 1 employed a dual-task methodology to investigate whether participants' preference for heuristic versus compensatory decision strategies can be altered by increasing the cognitive demands of the task.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFObjective: We examined the effectiveness of blue force tracking (BFT) decision support for dismounted infantry soldiers.
Background: Technologies to support combat identification (CID) are rapidly evolving and may be deployable to dismounted soldiers in the future. BFT systems are designed to mitigate the risk of fratricide by supplying positional information regarding friendly units to enhance situation awareness.