ABSTRACT
Contributions of brain research to human knowledge have ourished in recent years, owing in large measure to the increasing sophistication of direct brain monitoring, imaging, and interventional technologies and cognitive modeling tools (National Research Council 2008). Focused research collaborations, such as the Decade of the Mind (Albus et al. 2007), sought to ensure the rapid emergence of further insights into human cognition, emotion, and behavior. While neuroscience research (NR) is yielding important benets to mental health, education, and computational science (the motivating aspects for the Decade of the Mind), the rapid pace of such work can also offer other capabilities to enhance national security, with knowledge and capability to improve the following:
• Human cognitive performance-Through better understanding of basic processes involved with memory, emotion, and reasoning, including the formation of biases and heuristics (Canton 2004). Such knowledge can provide improved task design, information structuring and presentation, and decision support to enhance human analysis, planning, and forecasting capabilities.
