Beyond the information given: infants' transfer of actions learned through imitation.

Five experiments were conducted to investigate infants' ability to transfer actions learned via imitation to new objects and to examine what components of the original context are critical to such transfer. Infants of 15 months observed an experimenter perform an action with one or two toys and then were offered a novel toy that was not demonstrated for them. In all experiments, infants performed target actions with the novel toy more frequently than infants who were offered the same toy but had seen no prior demonstrations.

Evaluation of a simulation-based program for medic cognitive skills training.

Simulation-based training is a promising instructional approach for training military and civilian first responders. In addition to training in relevant taskwork skills, there is increasing need for first responder training in cognitively-based skills such as situation assessment and decision making. The First Responder Simulation Training (FIRST) program trains cognitive skills using complex and degraded situations.

A web-based teamwork skills training program for emergency medical teams.

T-TRANE is a scenario-based teamwork skills training program for emergency medical teams that uses web-enabled collaborative technologies. The program assumes students are skilled in clinical techniques but have minimal formal knowledge of teamwork. By providing training that focuses on teamwork skills in emergency medical settings, the program is designed to rapidly increase team proficiency.