Facial Discrimination Clinical Trial
Official title:
Improvement of Facial Recognition Ability and Multitasking
This study aims to determine the efficacy of training on facial recognition and multitasking. The researchers hypothesize that participants who have undergone facial recognition and multitasking training will demonstrate an improved facial recognition ability and performance in multi-tasking. The researchers also hypothesize that measures of sustained and selective attention will predict performance on multitasking tasks. This work sets the ground work for future research into if and how facial recognition and multitasking ability can be improved.
There has been evidence showing improvements on performance on various cognitive tasks after
training, but evidence on multitasking and facial recognition is lacking. Both multi-tasking
and facial recognition are crucial for military and law enforcement personnel, and the
respective organizations can consider these abilities during their respective recruitment and
training processes.
This study will test whether training on multi-tasking and facial recognition tasks can
improve an individual's performance. Additionally, it will test whether their performance on
other measures of attention and multitasking can predict changes post-training.
Participants will go through 5 testing sessions span over 5 days. For each session,
participants will complete a multitasking task and a facial recognition task. Participants
are hypothesized to improve in their performance after 5 consecutive days of training on
these 2 tasks. Additionally, participants will also complete 2 attention tasks, 1 face memory
task, and 1 other multi-tasking task only on the first day. Both multitasking tasks are
expected to correlate at baseline, and performance on the attention tasks may predict
performance on multitasking tasks as these tasks require sustained and selective attention. A
face memory task will also be used to account for each individual's baseline facial
recognition ability.
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