ABSTRACT
The rapid proliferation of new technologies and tools with purported benefit for optimizing, even enhancing, cognitive performance and brain function, raises a number of challenges for trainers, program managers, leadership, and individual users. Given a seemingly unending array of devices and programs to choose from, decisions regarding which approach to select, and for what purpose, can be anything but straightforward. As demonstrated by the concluding remarks of each of our technical chapters in Part 2, there is typically a lack of methodological consensus across the broader scientific literature pertaining to any given device or approach, which often results in inconsistent findings. One caveat to keep in mind when attempting to evaluate the cost/benefit balance of the implementation of a new technique, is that time is an extremely spare resource in high-performance environments. This is a major difference between high performers and a more general audience, and the reason why this group of authors decided to bundle forces to gather all the evidence in one single handbook.
