New neuroscience-based technologies aim to improve decisionmaking under pressure. But solving systemic problems will take a lot more than that.
June 8, 2021READ MOREContessa Brewer joins ‘The News with Shepard Smith’ to report on how VR technology is being used to train police officers.
April 23, 2021READ MOREStrategies for reforming policing have dominated the public discourse for the last year, from calls to change how incidents are investigated, to restrictions on how officers use crowd control weapons. In Washington, neuroscientist Dr. Jonathan Page believes the key could be in our brains.
April 13, 2021READ MORETechRepublic's Karen Roby spoke with Jonathan Page, president and co-founder of Preflex First, about cognitive neuroscience and how it helps law enforcement. The following is an edited transcript of their conversation.
March 17, 2021READ MOREA police academy in Washington state has incorporated what’s known as “brain training” as a part of its curriculum. Its creator calls it a paradigm shift for police. VOA’s Elizabeth Lee has the details.
November 3, 2020READ MOREResearch gives an unequivocal answer to this question: Changing behavior is the best training option.
December 21, 2020READ MOREAlmost everything about the microtraining methodology is different from standard training. Officers train on their own, away from groups ...
December 21, 2020READ MOREHow much instruction did you receive on the most important tool you have at your disposal, your brain?
December 21, 2020READ MOREPerceptions and actions are initiated in the nonconscious brain, or what we refer to as the back-channel. The back-channel has been wired over millions of years to form associations between concepts, objects, and events.
October 2, 2020READ MOREMost scientists view the human brain as the most complicated system in our universe, maybe even more complex than the universe itself.
September 28, 2020READ MOREThe media and pundits say that race affects an officer’s decision to shoot and with some recent police shootings, anecdotal evidence points in that direction as well — but what does science say?
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