Steven Kornguth Rebecca Steinberg - Neurocognitive and Physiological Factors During High-Tempo Operations

NEUROCOGNITIVE AND PHYSIOLOGICAL FACTORS DURING HIGH-TEMPO OPERATIONS

Human Factors in Defence

Series Editors:

Dr Don Harris, Managing Director of HFI Solutions Ltd, UK

Professor Neville Stanton, Chair in Human Factors of Transport at the University of Southampton, UK

Dr Eduardo Salas, University of Central Florida, USA

Human factors is key to enabling todays armed forces to implement their vision to produce battle-winning people and equipment that are fit for the challenge of today, ready for the tasks of tomorrow and capable of building for the future (source: UK MoD). Modern armed forces fulfil a wider variety of roles than ever before. In addition to defending sovereign territory and prosecuting armed conflicts, military personnel are engaged in homeland defence and in undertaking peacekeeping operations and delivering humanitarian aid right across the world. This requires top class personnel, trained to the highest standards in the use of first class equipment. The military has long recognised that good human factors is essential if these aims are to be achieved.

The defence sector is far and away the largest employer of human factors personnel across the globe and is the largest funder of basic and applied research. Much of this research is applicable to a wide audience, not just the military; this series aims to give readers access to some of this high quality work.

Ashgates Human Factors in Defence series comprises of specially commissioned books from internationally recognised experts in the field. They provide in-depth, authoritative accounts of key human factors issues being addressed by the defence industry across the world.

EDITED BY

STEVEN KORNGUTH REBECCA STEINBERG
University of Texas at Austin, USA

&

MICHAEL D. MATTHEWS
United States Military Academy, USA

ASHGATE

Steven Kornguth, Rebecca Steinberg and Michael D. Matthews 2010

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British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data

Neurocognitive and physiological factors during high-tempo

operations. -- (Human factors in defence)

1. Psychology, Military. 2. Soldiers--Job stressUnited

States. 3. Combat--Physiological aspects. 4. Cognition-Physiological aspects.

I. Series II. Kornguth, Steven E. III. Steinberg, Rebecca.

IV. Matthews, Michael D.

355.4019-dc22

ISBN: 978-0-7546-7923-3 (hbk)

ISBN: 978-0-7546-9825-8 (ebk)

ISBN: 978-1-4094-8630-5 (ebk-ePUB)

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Neurocognitive and physiological factors during high-tempo operations / [edited] by Steven
Kornguth, Rebecca Steinberg, and Michael D. Matthews.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN 978-0-7546-7923-3 (hardback) -- ISBN 978-0-7546-9825-8 (ebook) 1. Psychology, Military. 2. Soldiers--Job stress-United States. 3. Combat--Psychological aspects. 4. Combat--Physiological aspects. 5. Cognition--Physiological aspects. I. Kornguth, Steven E. II. Steinberg, Rebecca. III. Matthews, Michael D.

U22.3.N48 2010

355.4019--dc22

2009046926

Printed and bound in Great Britain by MPG Books Group, UK

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