title: Event related brain electrical and magnetic activity: toward predicting on-job performance.
abstract: Personnel assessment has depended on paper and pencil tests. These tests are able to predict academic performance fairly well, but have been criticized for their ineffectiveness in predicting on-job performance. Research on brain function which emphasizes "process" rather than "content" variables, may be able to predict on-job performance better than traditional tests. Relationships have been found between event related brain potentials (ERPs) and performance in fighter aircraft and on a sonar simulator, as well as enlistees promotions and attrition. Research has suggested that ERP records are better able to discriminate and classify performance groups than paper-and-pencil test scores. Biomagnetic data are described from heart and brain. These data suggest increased sensitivity to individual differences, and may offer greater opportunity for improving prediction of on-job performance, than ERP records or paper-and-pencil tests.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D003071:Cognition / Q000502:physiology; D004185:Disability Evaluation; D004594:Electrophysiology; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D005074:Evoked Potentials, Visual; D006801:Humans; D008280:Magnetics; D008297:Male; D010827:Physiology / Q000295:instrumentation; D011932:Reading; D014938:Work Capacity Evaluation