Retention and Reacquisition of Military Skills

Sabol, Mark A.; Wisher, Robert A.

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“…As expertise sets in, these two functions become less challenged and their enhancement is expected to fade away. Indeed, much as physical fitness decays in the absence of continued physical demand, so do enhancements in cognitive abilities in the absence of continued cognitive demand [32,33]. Generalization is therefore expected to decrease as learning progresses toward expertise, a prediction in line with the highly specific skilled performance noted in experts.…”

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Expertise and generalization: lessons from action video games

Bavelier

Bediou

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2018

Current Opinion in Behavioral Sciences

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Training is typically characterized by a trade-off between developing efficient performance, or expertise, and maintaining the ability to generalize one's knowledge beyond the trained domain. Here we ask whether it may be possible to train individuals to enhance their generalization abilities despite this natural trade-off. We first review the proposal that enhanced attentional control and cognitive flexibility may be potential mechanisms that will produce broad generalization. We then consider the case of action video game play which has been associated with enhancements in both attentional control and cognitive flexibility as well as generalization beyond the trained intervention.

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Expertise and generalization: lessons from action video games

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2018

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“…The variability of key tasks can be substantial if students do not repeat them after they are learned. For example, in field research with soldiers who have been recalled to service after being away for more than a year, Sabol and Wisher (2001) report skill losses ranging between 27% and 83% for hands-on tasks. Such procedural tasks at the application level are of major concern to the proficiency of TBMCS.…”

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Training Program Review: Theater Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS) Training Program Evaluation

Zaharee¹

2002

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“…Studies in the retention of individual skills in the military are numerous (Hagman & Rose, 1983;Sabol & Wisher, 2001;Wisher et al, 1999) and often cover major themes such as initial learning, events during the retention interval, and conditions of retrieval in skills ranging from marksmanship and the retention of motor skills (McDonald, 1967) to the retention of procedures in flight (Prophet, 1976). Foremost, these results are the first to address retention of team-level skills, namely those of coordination and communication.…”

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“…The Army Research Institute has investigated retention and capacity for relearning training of various skills such as weapon maintenance and reaction to biological/chemical threats. Such research has lead to the development of training aids for use by instructors which allows for the rapid identification of tasks that may require more re-learning due to low retention (Sabol & Wisher, 2001;Wisher, Sabol, & Ellis, 1999).Although skill retention is often accurate and automatic even after extended periods of time, the airline industry has also expressed interest in retention of skills (i.e. recovery in emergencies) such that training is required at regular intervals (Wickens, 1992).…”

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Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Improving Breast Core Needle Biopsy

Bydlon¹

2007

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Public reporting burden for this collection of information is estimated to average 1 hour per response, including the time for reviewing instructions, searching existing data sources, gathering and maintaining the data needed, and completing and reviewing this collection of information. Send comments regarding this burden estimate or any other aspect of this collection of information, including suggestions for reducing this burden to Department of Defense, Washington Headquarters Services, Directorate for Information , 1215 Jefferson Davis Highway, Suite 1204, Arlington, VA 22202-4302. Respondents should be aware that notwithstanding any other provision of law, no person shall be subject to any penalty for failing to comply with a collection of information if it does not display a currently valid OMB control number. PLEASE DO NOT RETURN YOUR FORM TO THE ABOVE ADDRESS. (From -To) 03-15-2004 to 12-31-2007 5a. CONTRACT NUMBER 5b. GRANT NUMBER REPORT DATE 25-05-2007 REPORT TYPE Final Report DATES COVERED FA8650-04-2-6442 TITLE AND SUBTITLE ACQUISITION AND RETENTION OF TEAM COORDINATION IN COMMAND-AND-CONTROL5c. PROGRAM ELEMENT NUMBER 5d. PROJECT NUMBER 5e. TASK NUMBER AUTHOR(S)Nancy J. Cooke, Jamie Gorman, Harry Pedersen, Jennifer Winner, Jasmine Duran, Amanda Taylor, Polemnia G. Amazeen, Dee H. Andrews, and Leah Rowe 5f. WORK UNIT NUMBER 1123AM02 PERFORMING ORGANIZATION NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 8. PERFORMING ORGANIZATION REPORT NUMBERCognitive Engineering Research Institute (CERI) 5810 S. Sossaman Rd. Suite 106 Mesa, AZ 85212 SPONSORING / MONITORING AGENCY NAME(S) AND ADDRESS(ES) 10. SPONSOR/MONITOR'S ACRONYM(S)AFRL; AFRL/HEA SPONSOR/MONITOR'S REPORT NUMBER(S)Air DISTRIBUTION / AVAILABILITY STATEMENTApproved for public release; distribution is unlimited SUPPLEMENTARY NOTES ABSTRACTThis project took place in the context of simulated Uninhabited Air Vehicle (UAV) command-and-control. In Experiment 1 we addressed the development of team coordination with experience and over lengthy intervals without practice in situations in which the team retains the same or different members over time. Team coordination is characterized by timely and adaptive information exchange among team members. A procedural model of team coordination was developed and used to generate a model-based metric of team coordination. This metric was then applied to track coordination development in two experiments. Results from the first experiment, showing a team performance decrement and a longer-term process benefit due to longer retention intervals or changes in team composition were used to guide the development of a dynamical systems model of the acquisition and retention of team coordination. The model was then used to generate additional predictions that were tested empirically in a second experiment. In the second experiment, coordination was trained using a rigid procedural model, cross training, or perturbations in the environment constraining coordination. Results indicated that perturbation training resulted in superior team per...

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Retention and Reacquisition of Military Skills

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Expertise and generalization: lessons from action video games

Expertise and generalization: lessons from action video games

Training Program Review: Theater Battle Management Core Systems (TBMCS) Training Program Evaluation

Near Infrared Spectroscopy for Improving Breast Core Needle Biopsy

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