1. New Measures of Complex Visual Processing Abilities:Individual Differences in Strategic Learning and Performance Program Officer, Dr. Tanja Blackstone, ONR Cognitive, Neural, and Biomolecular Science and Technology Division PI: Stephanie Doane, Psychology Graduate Students: Chris Gonzalez, Cognitive Science, Ginger Cross, Psychology Navy Problem Addressed: Sailor21 goals require optimal sailor performance Current measures of higher-order cognitive abilities are limited Purpose: Develop new measures of cognitive abilities that predict the ability of sailors to acquire strategic visual discrimination skills and then modify them in the dynamically changing environment of the 21st century Navy.

2. Standard D1D2D3 D4D5D6 What cognitive abilities support optimal visual discrimination skills? What cognitive abilities support adaptation to dynamically changing environments? New Measures of Complex Spatial Processing Abilities:Relating Spatial Abilities to Learning and Performance

3. Approach: Measure cognitive abilities Measure strategic visual discrimination skill acquisition, modification, and transfer to novel objects Milestones: Year 1: Build reference battery of tests, creating materials, running subjects in the test battery and in spatial comparison studies. Year 2: Detail Integration task and long-term memory task. Year 3: Development and test of internal and external validity for three new measures of spatial ability.