Human Performance Optimization: The Science and Ethics of Enhancing Human Capabilities - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0190455136 ISBN 13: 9780190455132

Publisher: OUP USA, 2019

Synopsis

Explores current and emerging strategies for enhancing individual and team performance, especially in high-stakes, stressful settings such as the military, law enforcement, firefighting, or competitive corporate settings.

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About the Author

Michael D. Matthews is currently Professor of Engineering Psychology at the United States Military Academy. He is a Templeton Foundation Senior Positive Psychology Fellow, Fellow of the Army Chief of Staff's Strategic Studies Group, and author of Head Strong: How Psychology is Revolutionizing War (Oxford University Press, 2014.)

David M. Schnyer is a Professor in the Department of Psychology and the Institute for Neuroscience at the University of Texas, Austin. He completed a PhD in Clinical Neuropsychology from the University of Arizona. While at the Memory Disorders Research Center at Boston University School of Medicine he was awarded a National Institutes of Health (NIH) K-award in multimodal neuroimaging techniques and trained at the Martinos Center for Biomedical Imaging (MGH). His lab researches the cognitive and neural systems that support memory and attention control in young and old healthy individuals, as well as in persons suffering from mental illness and traumatic brain injury.

Edition details

• Publisher: OUP USA
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0190455136
• ISBN 13: 9780190455132
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 484
• Editor: Matthews Michael D., Schnyer David M.