Individual Differences and the Science of Human Performance

This study comprises the third year of the Robust Automated Knowledge Capture (RAKC) project. In the previous two years, preliminary research was conducted by collaborators at the University of Notre Dame and the University of Memphis. The focus of this preliminary research was to identify relationships between cognitive performance aptitudes (e.g., short-term memory capacity, mental rotation) and strategy selection for laboratory tasks, as well as tendencies to maintain or abandon these strategies. The current study extends initial research by assessing electrophysiological correlates with individual tendencies in strategy selection. This study identifies regularities within individual differences and uses this information to develop a model to predict and understand the relationship between these regularities and cognitive performance.