Enhancing human performance: issues, theories, and techniques
Abstract : At the requests of the U.S. Army Research Institute, the National Research Council formed a committee to assess the field of techniques that are claimed to enhance human performance. The Institute asked the Council to evaluate the claims made by proponents of selected existing techniques and to address two general additional questions: (1) What are the appropriate criteria for evaluating claims for such techniques in the future? (2) What research is needed to advance our understanding of performance enhancement in areas related to the proposed techniques? The objectives of the committee's study are to provide aan authoritative assessment of these questions for policy makers in research and development who are consumers of the techniques, as well as to consider their possible applications to Army training.