Brooke N. Macnamara, Principal Investigator

The goal of the Skill, Learning, and Performance Laboratory is to investigate environmental (e.g. task features), cognitive (e.g. working memory capacity), and experiential (e.g. practice) factors that influence task performance, both in terms of changes within an individual (e.g. learning) and variation across people (i.e. differences).

 

 

 

 

 

Members of the S.L.A.P. Lab research factors associated with learning, skill acquisition, achievement, and expertise. This includes examining
• how types and amounts of experience predict individual differences in expertise,
• how various cognitive abilities predict individual differences in skilled performance,
• how beliefs predict achievement,
• how task characteristics interact with other factors to predict performance,
• stress and performance under pressure,
• the role of artificial intelligence on human skill, and
• emotion-cognition interaction traits on skill, learning, and performance.

 

Work in the S.L.A.P. Lab is funded by the National Science Foundation and the Army Research Institute.