The manuscript titled Identification and Application of Neurophysiologic Synchronies for Studying the Dynamics of Teamwork has been accepted for the 19th Behavior Representation in Modeling & Simulation (BRIMS) Conference which will be held March 22-25, 2010 at the Charleston Harbor Resort and Marina, Charleston, SC.
In this paper we describe a process for collecting and combining neurophysiologic signals derived from individual members of a team to develop pattern categories showing the normalized expression of these signals at each second for the team as a whole. The expression of different neurophysiologic synchrony patterns is sensitive to changes in the behavior of teams over time and perhaps to the level of expertise. The utility and limitations of using this approach are demonstrated for three tasks including a team emotion recall research study, an educational study where teams of high school students solved substance abuse simulations and a complex training study where Submarine Officer Advanced Candidate trainees performed submarine piloting and navigation exercises.
Ron Stevens and Trysha Galloway from the IMMEX Project as well as Chris Berka and Adrienne Behneman from Advanced Brain Monitoring are co-authors of the paper. Once the proceedings are published we will link a copy of the paper at our Publications site.