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A recipe for dyadic collective intelligence for well-structured tasks: mix equal parts cognitive ability and confidence plus a pinch of social sensitivity Open

Matthew D. Blanchard, Eugene Aidman, Lazar Stankov, Sabina Kleitman · 2025

A collective intelligence factor (CI) was introduced by prior research to characterise the cognitive ability of groups. Surprisingly, individual intelligence did not predict CI. Instead, it correlated with individual social sensitivity, th…

How Trait Confidence and Communication Shape Dyadic Decision Outcomes and Confidence Matching Open

Matthew D. Blanchard, Eugene Aidman, Lazar Stankov, Sabina Kleitman · 2025

When individuals collaborate, they often rely on momentary estimates of their own and their partner’s confidence (decision confidence) to guide collective decisions and achieve their goals. Through interaction, these confidence estimates t…

A Recipe for Dyadic Collective Intelligence for Well-Structured Tasks: Mix Equal Parts Cognitive Ability and Confidence Plus a Pinch of Social Sensitivity Open

Matthew D. Blanchard, Eugene Aidman, Lazar Stankov, Sabina Kleitman · 2025

A collective intelligence factor (CI) was introduced by prior research to characterize the cognitive ability of groups. Surprisingly, individual intelligence did not predict CI. Instead, it correlated with individual social sensitivity, th…

Effects of a Multimodal Psychophysiological Training Intervention on Cognitive Fitness, Hardiness and Wellbeing of Corporate Professionals Open

Paul Taylor, David Harris, Eugene Aidman · 2025

Workplace stress and burnout are known as major contributors to deficits in cognitive functioning, including memory, attention, and executive functioning, leading to impairments in both well-being and performance. Our prior work showed a b…

Emotion Regulation and Coping in Active Military Personnel: A Systematic Review Open

Rebecca Kirkham, Chang Liu, Teresa Wulandari, Eugene Aidman, Murat Yücel , et al. · 2025

Emotions significantly impact decision‐making, teamwork, stress management, and resilience in high‐pressure occupations such as the military, emergency services and competitive sports, making effective emotion regulation (ER) essential to …

Designing AI-Enabled Countermeasures to Cognitive Warfare Open

Jurriaan van Diggelen, Eugene Aidman, Jazz Rowa, Julian Vince · 2025

Foreign information operations on social media platforms pose significant risks to democratic societies. With the rise of Artificial Intelligence (AI), this threat is likely to intensify, potentially overwhelming human defenders. To achiev…

Understanding sleep health challenges of defence shift workers to design a digital, sleep and circadian management tool Open

Prerna Varma, Lin Shen, Svetlana Postnova, Kylie Goodell King, Mark E. Howard , et al. · 2025

SleepSync: Early Testing of a Personalised Sleep–Wake Management Smartphone Application for Improving Sleep and Cognitive Fitness in Defence Shift Workers Open

Prerna Varma, Svetlana Postnova, S. A. Knock, Mark E. Howard, Eugene Aidman , et al. · 2024

Shift work, long work hours, and operational tasks contribute to sleep and circadian disruption in defence personnel, with profound impacts on cognition. To address this, a digital technology, the SleepSync app, was designed for use in def…

Reduced pre-attentive threat versus nonthreat signal discrimination in clinically healthy military personnel with recurrent combat exposure history: A preliminary event-related potential (ERP) study Open

Andrew J. Lawrence, Ellie Lawrence‐Wood, Eugene Aidman, Phaedra Spencer-Merris, Kim L. Felmingham , et al. · 2024

Evidence now suggests that traumatic-stress impacts brain functions even in the absence of acute-onset post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. These neurophysiological changes have also been suggested to account for increased risks…

Awareness of errors is reduced by sleep loss Open

Johanna M. Boardman, Zachariah R. Cross, Michelle Bravo, Thomas Andrillon, Eugene Aidman , et al. · 2024

The ability to detect and subsequently correct errors is important in preventing the detrimental consequences of sleep loss. The Error Related Negativity (ERN), and the error positivity (Pe) are established neural correlates of error proce…

Correction: Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Platform to Train Stress Management Skills for a Defense Workforce: Multisite, Mixed Methods Feasibility Study Open

Murielle G. Kluge, Steven Maltby, Caroline Kühne, Nicole Walker, Neanne Bennett , et al. · 2023

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Correction: Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Platform to Train Stress Management Skills for a Defense Workforce: Multisite, Mixed Methods Feasibility Study (Preprint) Open

Murielle G. Kluge, Steven Maltby, Caroline Kühne, Nicole Walker, Neanne Bennett , et al. · 2023

UNSTRUCTURED Psychological stress-related injuries within first-responder organizations have created a need for the implementation of effective stress management training. Most stress management training solutions have limitations associa…

Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Platform to Train Stress Management Skills for a Defense Workforce: Multisite, Mixed Methods Feasibility Study Open

Murielle G. Kluge, Steven Maltby, Caroline Kühne, Nicole Walker, Neanne Bennett , et al. · 2023

Background Psychological stress-related injuries within first-responder organizations have created a need for the implementation of effective stress management training. Most stress management training solutions have limitations associated…

Effects of Multimodal Physical and Cognitive Fitness Training on Sustaining Mental Health and Job Readiness in a Military Cohort Open

Paul Taylor, Frederick R. Walker, Andrew Heathcote, Eugene Aidman · 2023

Drawing on the emerging area of workplace sustainability, this study sought to measure the effects of multimodal physical and cognitive fitness training on sustaining mental health and job readiness via impacts on subjective burnout, menta…

Are two naïve and distributed heads better than one? Factors influencing the performance of teams in a challenging real-time task Open

Matthew D. Blanchard, Sabina Kleitman, Eugene Aidman · 2023

Introduction Collective decisions in dynamic tasks can be influenced by multiple factors, including the operational conditions, quality and quantity of communication, and individual differences. These factors may influence whether two head…

Calibration of cognitive tests to address the reliability paradox for decision-conflict tasks Open

Talira Kucina, Lindsay Wells, Ian Lewis, Kristy de Salas, Amelia Kohl , et al. · 2023

Standard, well-established cognitive tasks that produce reliable effects in group comparisons also lead to unreliable measurement when assessing individual differences. This reliability paradox has been demonstrated in decision-conflict ta…

Cognitive fitness modulates gender differences in sleep and mental health among competitive athletes under chronic stress Open

Luis Mascaro, Sean P. A. Drummond, Josh Leota, Johanna M. Boardman, Daniel Hoffman , et al. · 2023

Objectives: Mental fitness is increasingly considered a key component of an athlete’s competitive arsenal. Active domains of mental fitness include cognitive fitness, sleep, and mental health; and these domains can differ between men and w…

Evaluation of a Virtual Reality Platform to Train Stress Management Skills for a Defense Workforce: Multisite, Mixed Methods Feasibility Study (Preprint) Open

Murielle G. Kluge, Steven Maltby, Caroline Kühne, Nicole Walker, Neanne Bennett , et al. · 2023

BACKGROUND Psychological stress-related injuries within first-responder organizations have created a need for the implementation of effective stress management training. Most stress management training solutions have limitations associate…

Multifactorial structure of cognitive assessment tests in the UK Biobank: A combined exploratory factor and structural equation modeling analyses Open

Liliana G Ciobanu, Lazar Stankov, Muktar Beshir Ahmed, Andrew Heathcote, Scott R. Clark , et al. · 2023

Introduction The UK Biobank cognitive assessment data has been a significant resource for researchers looking to investigate predictors and modifiers of cognitive abilities and associated health outcomes in the general population. Given th…

Building a transdisciplinary expert consensus on the cognitive drivers of performance under pressure: An international multi-panel Delphi study Open

Lucy Albertella, Rebecca Kirkham, Amy B. Adler, John Crampton, Sean P. A. Drummond , et al. · 2023

Introduction The ability to perform optimally under pressure is critical across many occupations, including the military, first responders, and competitive sport. Despite recognition that such performance depends on a range of cognitive fa…

Optimising the effects of physical activity on mental health and wellbeing: A joint consensus statement from Sports Medicine Australia and the Australian Psychological Society Open

Stewart A. Vella, Eugene Aidman, Megan Teychenne, Jordan J. Smith, Christian Swann , et al. · 2023

The type, domain, physical and social environment of physical activity, as well as the way in which it is delivered, will determine mental health outcomes. Practitioners can use these recommendations to optimise the effects of physical act…

General intelligence and executive functioning are overlapping but separable at genetic and molecular pathway levels: An analytical review of existing GWAS findings Open

Liliana G Ciobanu, Lazar Stankov, Klaus Oliver Schubert, Azmeraw T. Amare, Magdalene C. Jawahar , et al. · 2022

Understanding the genomic architecture and molecular mechanisms of cognitive functioning in healthy individuals is critical for developing tailored interventions to enhance cognitive functioning, as well as for identifying targets for trea…

Trait-level cognitive and psychological factors associated with longitudinal resilience to sleep disturbance under chronic stress Open

Sean P. A. Drummond, Joshua F. Wiley, Johanna M. Boardman, Eugene Aidman, Elizabeth A. Kensinger , et al. · 2022

An app-enhanced cognitive fitness training program for athletes: The rationale and validation protocol Open

Eugene Aidman, Gerard J. Fogarty, John Crampton, Jeffrey Bond, Paul Taylor , et al. · 2022

The core dimensions of cognitive fitness, such as attention and cognitive control, are emerging through a transdisciplinary expert consensus on what has been termed the Cognitive Fitness Framework (CF2). These dimensions represent key driv…

Building a Transdisciplinary Expert Consensus on the Cognitive Drivers of Performance Under Pressure: An International Multi-panel Delphi Study Open

Lucy Albertella, Rebecca Kirkham, Amy B. Adler, John Crampton, Sean P. A. Drummond , et al. · 2022

The ability to perform optimally under pressure is critical across many occupations, including the military, first responders, and competitive sport, and depends on a range of cognitive factors. How common these key performance factors are…

Calibration of Cognitive Tests to Address the Reliability Paradox for Decision-Conflict Tasks Open

Talira Kucina, Lindsay Wells, Ian Lewis, Kristy de Salas, Amelia Kohl , et al. · 2022

Standard, well-established cognitive tasks that produce reliable effects in group comparisons also lead to unreliable measurement when assessing individual differences. This reliability paradox has been demonstrated in decision-conflict ta…

Applying Evidence-Centered Design to Measure Psychological Resilience: The Development and Preliminary Validation of a Novel Simulation-Based Assessment Methodology Open

Sabina Kleitman, Simon Jackson, Lisa Zhang, Matthew D. Blanchard, Nikzad Babaii Rizvandi , et al. · 2022

Modern technologies have enabled the development of dynamic game- and simulation-based assessments to measure psychological constructs. This has highlighted their potential for supplementing other assessment modalities, such as self-report…

P091 The impact of cognitive fitness and gender on sleep quantity and timing and mental health of competitive athletes Open

Luis Mascaro, Sean P. A. Drummond, Josh Leota, Johanna M. Boardman, Daniel Hoffman , et al. · 2021

Introduction Mental fitness is increasingly considered key to an athlete’s competitive arsenal. Its active ingredients include cognitive fitness factors, such as impulse control, and recovery factors, such as sleep, which may differ betwee…

Caffeine may disrupt the impact of real-time drowsiness on cognitive performance: a double-blind, placebo-controlled small-sample study Open

Eugene Aidman, M. Balin, Kayla Johnson, Simon Jackson, Gemma M. Paech , et al. · 2021

Caffeine is widely used to promote alertness and cognitive performance under challenging conditions, such as sleep loss. Non-digestive modes of delivery typically reduce variability of its effect. In a placebo-controlled, 50-h total sleep …

Development of a modular stress management platform (Performance Edge VR) and a pilot efficacy trial of a bio-feedback enhanced training module for controlled breathing Open

Murielle G. Kluge, Steven Maltby, Nicole Walker, Neanne Bennett, Eugene Aidman , et al. · 2021

This paper describes the conceptual design of a virtual reality-based stress management training tool and evaluation of the initial prototype in a pilot efficacy study. Performance Edge virtual-reality (VR) was co-developed with the Austra…

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